Ebook {Epub PDF} The Magicians by Lev Grossman

 · "Lev Grossman's The Magician King is a fresh take on the fantasy-quest novel--dark, austere, featuring characters with considerable psychological complexity, a collection of idiosyncratic talking animals (a sloth who knows the path to the underworld, a dragon in the Grand Canal), and splendid set pieces in Venice, Provence, Cornwall, and Brooklyn.". Starting very early in Magician's Land, Grossman kicks off a series of escalating magical battles, each more fantastic, taut, and brutal than the last, which comes to a head in the final chapters with a world-shattering Götterdämmerung scene that stands with great war at the climax of The Return of the King. At the same time, Grossman never loses sight of the idea of magic as unknowable and unsystematized, /5(K). The Magicians by Lev Grossman is one of the most frequently reviewed fantasy novels of the last few years, which isn’t surprising because the author is a well known writer (and book reviewer) for TIME Magazine, and the book was very effectively hyped as “Harry Potter with college age students.”/5(K).

"The Magicians is Harry Potter as it might have been written by John Crowley This is one of the best fantasies I've read in ages." —Elizabeth Hand, Fantasy Science Fiction "The Magicians by Lev Grossman is a very entertaining book; one of those summer page-turners that you wish went on for another six volumes Grossman is at. Lev Grossman is an American Novelist best known for The Magicians, a fantasy novel set in modern times which aims to upend some of the tropes that surround Magic and witches in literature. +Biography Lev Grossman was a journalist before he began writing fiction. The Magicians by Lev Grossman Overview - The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, now an original series on SYFY " The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea.

The Magicians. by Lev Grossman. · , Ratings · 22, Reviews · published · 31 editions. A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for a. Want to Read. Shelving menu. Shelve The Magicians. Want to Read. Currently Reading. The Magician King. The Magician King is the sequel to The Magicians and picks up the story two years later. Quentin and his friends are the kings and queens of Fillory, but their life of luxury isn’t the paradise it appears to be. LEV GROSSMAN is the book critic for Time magazine and author of five novels, including the international bestseller Codex and the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.