James Joyce : a Penguin life / Edna O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Edna.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin lives series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joyce, James, 1882-1941.

Joyce, James.

Novelists, Irish--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, Irish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 179 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking Penguin, 1999.

Summary:

James Joyce claims that "A man of genius makes no mistakes." Yet his own life was replete with them. He was the first true revolutionary in twentieth-century fiction. Afflicted with the traditional adolescent inclinations--love, literature, sex, status--Joyce matured into a man obsessed with one thing: home. Yet it was only after he left Dublin for Italy that his vision for an Irish masterpiece took its shape. In self-imposed exile with his wife, Nora, the inspiration for Molly Bloom, and his two children, Joyce began work on the story of one day in the life of a man who, like Homer's hero, travels back to his origins. The development of Ulysses, the scandal surrounding its publication in Paris, and the people Joyce loved and lashed out against are recounted here with rigorous, critical adoration.

Contents:

Once Upon a Time 1

Jesuits 5

Inkpots 9

Rebellion 15

Orphans 23

Revels 31

Nora 35

Exiles 43

Manifesto 53

Betrayal 63

Buckets 69

Obstacles 77

Dalliance 85

Ulysses 93

Sirens 109

Miss Beach 119

Fame 123

Miss Weaver 133.

Notes:

"A Lipper/Viking book."

Includes bibliographical references (page 179).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0670882305

9780670882304

OCLC:

463346997