Quentin drunkenly sleeps with Janet, abruptly ending his relationship with Alice. Upon graduation, Quentin and the other Physical Kids live in Manhattan and spend their days and nights in hedonistic pursuits, still looking for a purpose. Quentin tells her the school's location, hoping she will have her memory properly erased. Failed applicants' memories of the school and of the existence of magic are wiped, but on Julia the erasure was imperfect she has become obsessed with learning magic. She reveals that she took the Brakebills entrance exam at the same time as Quentin, but failed. Quentin and Alice begin a relationship.ĭuring a summer vacation, Quentin is confronted by Julia. For a semester of their fourth year, they are all sent to Brakebills South in Antarctica where they practice in silence and isolation.
Although Quentin's Discipline does not manifest itself, he and Alice are sorted into the Physical magic group, which includes Eliot, Josh, and Janet, a year above them. Third year students are assigned a Discipline.
An otherworldly horror referred to as "the Beast" then enters Brakebills, eating a student before the faculty are able to drive it away. One day during class, a bored Quentin tampers with a spell.
Penny does not pass and stays behind, to his dismay. Despite this, Quentin and his classmates Penny and Alice are allowed to move up a year by compressing their first year of studies. Quentin soon finds that the study of magic is difficult and tedious, requiring him to learn many old and lost languages and innumerable hand positions. He passes the tests and interviews and is accepted as one of twenty new students. On the day of his Princeton interview, Quentin is instead transported to Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, the only school for magic in North America. He loves a series of books called "Fillory and Further", in which the five Chatwin children visit a Narnia-esque magical land called Fillory. Quentin Coldwater is a high school student from Brooklyn who, along with best friends James and Julia, attends an advanced school. Grossman has also worked on two comic books stories based on his novels. The novel received critical acclaim and was followed by a sequel, The Magician King, in 2011 and a third novel, The Magician's Land, in 2014.Ī television series adaptation of the novels premiered on Syfy in 2015. It tells the story of Quentin Coldwater, a young man who discovers and attends a secret college of magic in New York. The Magicians is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press.
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