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THE MAGICIANS - LEV GROSSMAN TASCHENBUCH

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. . . . Hogwarts was never like this. -George R.R. Martin Sad  hilarious 
beautiful  and essential to anyone who cares about modern fantasy. -Joe Hill A very knowing and
wonderful take on the wizard school genre. -John Green The Magicians may just be the most
subversive  gripping and enchanting fantasy novel I've read this century. -Cory Doctorow This
gripping novel draws on the conventions of contemporary and classic fantasy novels in order to
upend them . . . an unexpectedly moving coming-of-age story. -The New Yorker The best urban
fantasy in years. -A.V. Club Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A high school math
genius  he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical
land called Fillory  and real life is disappointing by comparison. When Quentin is unexpectedly
admitted to an elite  secret college of magic  it looks like his wildest dreams have come true.
But his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment  and
ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of Fillory. The land of his childhood fantasies
turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. . . . The
prequel to the New York Times bestselling book The Magician King and the #1 bestseller The
Magician's Land  The Magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary
fantasy in years. No one who has escaped into the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter should miss
this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination.

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