Warp: A Novel

Lev Grossman

Sep 2016 · Sold by St. Martin's Griffin

About this ebook

The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life."

Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world (with the exception of a fleet-footed nymph named Xanthe) not too far from where he graduated college. His friends do, too. They sleep late, read too much, drink too much, talk too much, and work and earn and do way too little. But Hollis does have an obsession: there's another world going on in his head, a world of excitement and danger and starships and romance, and it's telling him that it's time to stop dreaming and get serious.

This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the roots of his Magicians hero Quentin Coldwater in a book that is for anyone (and everyone) who has ever felt adrift in their own life.

Ratings and reviews

If you're looking for another Magicians, this isn't it - it's more of a novella with no big direction to the plot. Worth a read, but it's a bit overpriced.

This early work does NOT live up to the Magicians series. Give it a pass.

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About the author

Lev Grossman is the award-winning author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy, which is now an hour-long drama series on Syfy. Born in 1969, he attended Harvard and Yale and has been Time magazine's book critic since 2002. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.