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James Joyce A New Biography

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ISBN-10: 0374533822

ISBN-13: 9780374533823

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gordon Bowker

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A revealing new biography - the first in more than fifty years - of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figuresJames Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his novels and stories foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyce's genius was by no means immediately recognized, nor was his success easily won. At twenty-two he chose a life of exile; he battled poverty and financial dependency for much of his adult life; his out-of-wedlock relationship with Nora Barnacle was scandalous for the time; and the attitudes he held towards the Irish and Ireland, England,sexuality, politics, Catholicism, popular culture - to name a few - were complex,…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.15" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Epiphanies
Preface
Past Imperfect (1800-1882)
The Dawn of Consciousness (1882-1888)
Willingly to School (1888-1893)
Belvedere: In the Arms of the Jesuits (1893-1898)
Cultivating 'the Enigma of a Manner' (1898-1899)
Making a Reputation (1900-1902)
An Uncertain Future (1902)
'Sinister genius' (1902-1903)
A Death in the Family (1903-1904)
Nora (1904)
Birds of Passage (1904-1905)
At a Crossroads (1905-1906)
The Conception of Ulysses (1906-1907)
Going Freelance in Trieste (1907-1909)
The Exile's Return (1909-1910)
Portrait of the Artist in Retrospect (1910-1912)
A Portrait Completed; A Masterpiece Begun (1912-1915)
The Exile in Exile (1915-1917)
The Coming Forth by Day of Leopold Bloom (1917-1918)
Earthly Trials (1918)
Settling Scores and Moving On (1918-1920)
Ulysses: Inside the Dismal Labyrinth (1920-1921)
An Eventful Labour (1921-1922)
Ulysses: Birth and Afterbirth (1922-1924)
A Conspiracy of Concealment (1924-1926)
Fending Off the Pirates and Envisioning the Invisible (1927-1928)
A French Connection (1929)
'Always something new on the Robiac front' (1930)
A Very English Wedding (1931)
Death, Birth and Madness (1932-1933)
Ulysses Unbound (1934-1936)
The ABC of Blind Love and Ruination (1936-1938)
A Puzzle for a Puzzled World (1939)
'Going downhill fast' (1940)
Death in Exile (1940-)
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index of Poems and Songs
General Index