The Magicians: (Book 1)

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Quentin Clearwater is brilliant but miserable. Obsessed with the fantasy novels he read as a child, he finds the real world just doesn't compare. Then one day it happens- he stumbles unexpectedly into a hidden world and is invited to join a very exclusive college, where he will learn the secrets of magic. But something is still missing. And now Quentin will do anything to find what he's always been looking for.

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The best fantasy trilogy of the decade. -- Charles Stross
Stirring, complex, adventurous . . . Grossman delivers superb coming of age fantasy.
A darkly cunning story about the power of imagination itself. * The New Yorker *
Dark and dangerous and full of twists. Hogwart's was never like this.
The Magicians ought to be required reading... a terrific, at times almost painfully perceptive novel of the fantastic.

Author Bio

Lev Grossman is a novelist and Time magazine's book critic. A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he has written articles for the New York Times, Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and the Village Voice. In 2005 his debut novel Codex was published to great critical acclaim. He is also the author of The Magicians, The Magician King and The Magician's Land. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.