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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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