James Joyce
A Biography
$46.55
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2012
Summary
James Joyce was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but he was not immediately recognised as such; rather he lived in exile in the cosmopolitan Europe of the 1920s in a bid to escape the suffocating atmosphere and parochial prejudices of his native Dublin. His unstinting dedication to authorship picks him out as a writer in the romantic tradition.
He battled poverty and financial dependency for much of his adult life, as well as near-blindness from 1917 and the grief of h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753828601 |
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| ISBN-10: | 075382860X |
| Author: | Gordon Bowker |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 8 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 688g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 136mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Phoenix |
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We owe Mr Bowker a debt of gratitude for his considerable courage in undertaking this mammoth task.
This biography is both learned and readable; it is an attractive monument to a brilliant, kind-hearted, often unfortunate man. - Edmund Gordon, Sunday Times
A scrupulously researched, entertainingly readable biography of a maddeningly protean, contradictory genius. - John Walsh, IndependentBowker’s biography - packed as it is with incidents, ideas and sympathy - proves inspiring. - Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday TelegraphAbout The Author
Gordon Bowker
Gordon Bowker is the acclaimed author of a biography of Malcolm Lowry (author of Under the Volcano), entitled Pursued By Furies and an excellent biography of George Orwell. He lives in Notting Hill, London.
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