Lev Grossman discusses his novel The Magician’s Land
Thu 8/28 7pm – 8pm
Lev Grossman
discusses his novel The Magician’s Land
Viking Adult 9780670015672
Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land
of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose he returns to where his
story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic. But he can’t hide
from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him.
Along with Plum, a brilliant young undergraduate with a dark secret of her own,
Quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic
and desperate characters. But all roads lead back to Fillory, and his new life
takes him to old haunts, like Antarctica, and to buried secrets and old friends
he thought were lost forever. He uncovers the key to a sorcery masterwork, a
spell that could create magical utopia, a new Fillory—but casting it will set
in motion a chain of events that will bring Earth and Fillory crashing together.
To save them he will have to risk sacrificing everything.
The Magician’s Land is an intricate thriller, a fantastical epic, and an
epic of love and redemption that brings the Magicians trilogy to a magnificent
conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy.
It’s the story of a boy becoming a man, an apprentice becoming a master, and a
broken land finally becoming whole.
Lev Grossman is the book reviewer for Time magazine. In 2011 Grossman won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best New Writer from the World Science Fiction Society. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.