The Magicians
by sarahc
Have you ever wished that you could attend Hogwarts? Or walk through a dusty old wardrobe and find yourself in Narnia? If so, then Lev Grossman has written a new novel just for you! It’s called The Magicians, and it’s being advertised as the latest “Harry Potter for grownups.” The hero of the story, Quentin Coldwater, is a bright high school senior from Brooklyn who is still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy books he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. (Fillory is essentially the same as Narnia, and Grossman admits as much in an interview for NPR last month.) Quentin, while preparing for a Princeton interview, suddenly finds himself admitted to a secret college of magic in upstate New York, where he learns that magic is real – and so is Fillory.
The Magicians was published in August in the US (May in the UK), and AADL has several copies on order. Get on the hold list now, it’s only getting longer! Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time Magazine, as well as one of the magazine’s lead technology writers. He has published two other books, Warp and Codex; The Magicians is his first fantasy novel.
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