The Magician King
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new...
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The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges.
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.
Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.
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Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to the New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon, The Magicians, now an original series on SYFY, from the author of the #1 bestselling The Magician's Land.Quentin Coldwater should be happy. He escaped a miserable Brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that Fillory-a fictional utopia-was actually real. But even as a Fillorian king, Quentin finds little peace. His old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring.
Accompanied by his oldest friend, Julia, Quentin sets off-only to somehow wind up back in the real world and not in Fillory, as they'd hoped. As the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, Quentin is forced to rely on Julia's illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth.
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Copyright © 2011 by Lev GrossmanQuentin rode a gray horse with white socks named Dauntless. He wore black leather boots up to his knees, di erent-colored stockings, and a long navy-blue topcoat that was richly embroidered with seed pearls and silver thread. On his head was a platinum coronet. A glittering side-sword bumped against his leg not the ceremonial kind, the real kind, the kind that would actually be useful in a ght. It was ten o clock in the morning on a warm, overcast day in late August. He was everything a king of Fillory should be. He was hunting a magic rabbit.
By King Quentin s side rode a queen: Queen Julia. Up ahead were another queen and another king, Janet and Eliot the land of Fillory had four rulers in all. They rode along a high-arched forest path littered with yellow leaves, perfect little sprays of them that looked like they could have been cut and placed by a orist. They moved in silence, slowly, together but lost in their separate thoughts, gazing out into the green depths of the late summer woods.
It was an easy silence. Everything was easy. Nothing was hard. The dream had become real.
Stop! Eliot said, at the front.
They stopped. Quentin s horse didn t halt when the others did Dauntless wandered a little out of line and halfway o the trail before he persuaded her for good and all to quit walking for a damn minute. Two years as a king of Fillory and he was still shit at horseback riding.
What is it? he called.
They all sat for another minute. There was no hurry. Dauntless snorted once in the silence: lofty horsey contempt for whatever human enterprise they thought they were pursuing.
Thought I saw something.
I m starting to wonder, Quentin said, if it s even possible to track a rabbit.
It s a hare, Eliot said. Same di erence.
It isn t, actually. Hares are bigger. And they don t live
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in burrows, they make nests in open ground.
Don t start, both Julia and Janet said, in unison.
Here s my real question, Quentin said. If this rabbit thing really can see the future won t it know we re trying to catch it?
It can see the future, Julia said softly, beside him. It cannot change it. Did you three argue this much when you were at Brakebills?
She wore a sepulchral black riding dress and an actual riding hood, also black. She always wore black, like she was in mourning, even though Quentin couldn t think of anyone she should have been in mourning for. Casually, like she was calling over a waiter, Julia summoned a tiny songbird to her wrist and raised it up to her ear. It chipped, chirruped something, and she nodded back and it ew away again.
Nobody noticed, except for Quentin. She was always giving and get- ting little secret messages from the talking animals. It was like she was on a di erent wireless network from the rest of them.
You should have let us bring Jollyby, Janet said. She yawned, holding the back of her hand against her mouth. Jollyby was Master of the Hunt at Castle Whitespire, where they all lived. He usually supervised this kind of excursion.
Jollyby s great, Quentin said, but even he couldn t track a hare in the woods. Without dogs. When there s no snow.
Yes, but Jollyby has very well-developed calf muscles. I like looking at them. He wears those man-tights.&rd
Don t start, both Julia and Janet said, in unison.
Here s my real question, Quentin said. If this rabbit thing really can see the future won t it know we re trying to catch it?
It can see the future, Julia said softly, beside him. It cannot change it. Did you three argue this much when you were at Brakebills?
She wore a sepulchral black riding dress and an actual riding hood, also black. She always wore black, like she was in mourning, even though Quentin couldn t think of anyone she should have been in mourning for. Casually, like she was calling over a waiter, Julia summoned a tiny songbird to her wrist and raised it up to her ear. It chipped, chirruped something, and she nodded back and it ew away again.
Nobody noticed, except for Quentin. She was always giving and get- ting little secret messages from the talking animals. It was like she was on a di erent wireless network from the rest of them.
You should have let us bring Jollyby, Janet said. She yawned, holding the back of her hand against her mouth. Jollyby was Master of the Hunt at Castle Whitespire, where they all lived. He usually supervised this kind of excursion.
Jollyby s great, Quentin said, but even he couldn t track a hare in the woods. Without dogs. When there s no snow.
Yes, but Jollyby has very well-developed calf muscles. I like looking at them. He wears those man-tights.&rd
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Autoren-Porträt von Lev Grossman
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Lev Grossman
- 2012, 432 Seiten, Masse: 21 x 13,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Plume
- ISBN-10: 0452298016
- ISBN-13: 9780452298019
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.12.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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"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."--"The Daily Beast" "In this page-turning follow-up to his bestselling 2009 novel "The Magicians", Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fantasy, set in the Narnia-esque realm of Fillory."--"Entertainment Weekly" ""The Magician King "is clearly the middle book in a trilogy, but it's that rare creature that bridges the gap between tales and still stands on its own. And just as the first book showed that growing up is hard no matter how much power you have, it shows that becoming an adult involves far more than just reaching the right age."--"The A.V. Club" "Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom--not to be missed."--"Kirkus Reviews "(starred review) "Fans of "The Magicians" will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come."--"Booklist"
Pressezitat
[A] serious, heartfelt novel [that] turns the machinery of fantasy inside out. The New York Times (Editor s Choice)
A spellbinding stereograph, a literary adventure novel that is also about privilege, power, and the limits of being human. The Magician King is a triumphant sequel.
NPR.org
[The Magician King] is The Catcher in the Rye for devotees of alternative universes. It s dazzling and devil-may-care. . . . Grossman has created a rare, strange, and scintillating novel.
Chicago Tribune
The Magician King is a rare achievement, a book that simultaneously criticizes and celebrates our deep desire for fantasy.
The Boston Globe
Grossman has devised an enchanted milieu brimming with possibility, and his sly authorial voice gives it a literary life that positions The Magician King well above the standard fantasy fare.
San Francisco Chronicle
Grossman expands his magical world into a boundless enchanted universe, and his lively characters navigate it with aplomb.
The New Yorker
Grossman is brilliant at creating brainy, distinct, flawed, complex characters, and nearly as good at running them through narrative gauntlets that inventively tweak the stories that generations have grown up on.
The Portland Oregonian
The Magician King, the immensely entertaining new novel by Lev Grossman, manages to be both deep and deeply enjoyable.
Chicago Sun-Times
Readers who have already enjoyed The Magicians should lose no time in picking up The Magician King. For those who haven t, read both books: Grossman s work is solid, smart, and engaging adult fantasy.
The Miami Herald
Now that Harry Potter is through in books and films, grown-up fans of the boy wizard might want to give this nimble fantasy series a try.
New York Post
Lev Grossman s The Magician King is a fresh take on the fantasy-quest novel dark, austere, featuring characters with considerable
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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.
The Daily Beast
In this page-turning follow-up to his bestselling 2009 novel The Magicians, Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fantasy, set in the Narnia-esque realm of Fillory.
Entertainment Weekly
The Magician King is clearly the middle book in a trilogy, but it s that rare creature that bridges the gap between tales and still stands on its own. And just as the first book showed that growing up is hard no matter how much power you have, it shows that becoming an adult involves far more than just reaching the right age.
The A.V. Club
Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom not to be missed.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Fans of The Magicians will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come.
Booklist
The Daily Beast
In this page-turning follow-up to his bestselling 2009 novel The Magicians, Grossman takes another dark, sarcastically sinister stab at fantasy, set in the Narnia-esque realm of Fillory.
Entertainment Weekly
The Magician King is clearly the middle book in a trilogy, but it s that rare creature that bridges the gap between tales and still stands on its own. And just as the first book showed that growing up is hard no matter how much power you have, it shows that becoming an adult involves far more than just reaching the right age.
The A.V. Club
Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom not to be missed.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Fans of The Magicians will find this sequel a feast and will be delighted that a jaw-dropping denouement surely promises a third volume to come.
Booklist
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