James Joyce
Author of Ulysses
$30.91
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2020
Summary
Edna O’Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works ‘to bestir the hearts of men and angels’. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt and profligacy, and Joyce’s obsession with the city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words. Nor does Edna O’Brien spare us the anger and isolation of Joyce’s later years, when he f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474614450 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474614450 |
| Author: | Edna O'Brien |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 20mm |
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A delight from start to finish … achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce
A delight from start to finish … achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce * SUNDAY TIMES *As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Accessible and passionate, it is a book which should bring Joyce in all his glory and agony to a new and very wide audience * IRISH INDEPENDENT *She has really got under the skin of Joyce
About The Author
Edna O'Brien
Since her debut novel The Country Girls Edna O’Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art’s Gold Medal and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she lived in London for many years until her death in 2024.
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