"Imagine you are all curled up with your new book about young magicians. You sit there laughing and having a good time with this new take on magic school. You like the grown up aspect—this is just like you away at college but, you know, with magic. You feel a tap on your shoulder. Oh hey, it’s Mr. Grossman himself. What is he doing here? Then the water hits you in the face. Lev Grossman just threw a bucket of water in your face. What the hell Lev, (at this point you are on a first name basis by way of a bucket of water to the face), why did you do that? It was all going so well. But slowly you realize you were getting pretty hot, and you had been meaning to wash your shirt anyway. You’re cooler and cleaner than before. You turn to Lev and say, 'Okay that's all well and good, but don't do it again.' Lev walks away, saying over his shoulder, 'No promises.' And you know you will read whatever comes next because, after all, you ended up having a pretty good day."
Publisher Plume
Publication Date 2010-05-25
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Emmaline C.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780452296299
Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn't real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic doesn't bring the happiness and adventure Quentin thought it would. After graduation, he and his friends stumble upon a secret that sets them on a remarkable journey that may just fulfill Quentin's yearning. But their journey turns out to be darker and more dangerous than they'd imagined. Psychologically piercing and dazzlingly inventive, The Magicians, the prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The Magician's Land, is an enthralling coming-of-age tale about magic practiced in the real world-where good and evil aren't black and white, and power comes at a terrible price.
