LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER - -WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGEThe Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Toibin. It is his fifth novel and it was shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize and received the International Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year Award and, in France, Le prix du meilleur livre ?tranger in 2005.