Book description
Meet Quentin Coldwater, king of the bizarre and wonderful land of
Fillory. But he is getting restless, even in heaven a man needs a
little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt
Quentin gets exactly that. But this quest is like no other. What
starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff
of nightmares...
The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering
heart of magic, an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination
to run riot and proves Grossman is the modern heir to C. S. Lewis.
This is a book like no other.
Lev Grossman was born in 1969, the son of two English professors,
and grew up in a suburb of Boston. He graduated from Harvard with a
degree in literature and went on to the Ph. D. program in comparative
literature at Yale, although he left after three years without
finishing a dissertation.
After Yale, Grossman worked for a string of dot-coms while writing
freelance articles about books, technology and culture in general for
numerous magazines, newspapers and websites, until he was hired by
Time in 2002 and became the magazine's book critic as well as
one of its lead technology writers.
He is also the author of international bestseller CODEX.
