Lucia Joyce : To Dance in the Wake

English

ISBN: 0312422695

EAN: 9780312422691

Category: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Fatherhood/Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts/Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh/

Publisher: Picador

Release Date: 03/31/2005

Synopsis: In this ground breaking work Carol Shloss shows the extraordinary influence that James Joyces daughter Lucia exercised on her fathers emotions and work. This is a story that was not supposed to be told, writes Shloss who transforms Lucia from the mad daughter, and a footnote in her fathers life, to a creative kindred spirit. Shlosss patient research expands what could have been a footnote in literary history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before.--Time [Carol Loeb Shloss] argues that not only was Lucia an extraordinary artist in her own right, she was also central to the creation of Finnegans Wake....Joyce scholars say that Ms. Shlosss work is important because Lucia was pivotal to Joyces work.--The New York Times A sharply perceptive and disturbing meditation on the terrible price that great art often levies not only on the artist but on those closest to him....Lucia Joyces story, which Shloss tells so movingly, not only wrings the heart but stirs ones anger.--John Banville, The New York Review of Books The most impressive feature of her book is the delicacy with which it handles the complex ambiguities of the Joyce-Lucia relationship....Shloss argues persuasively that the conclusion of Finnegans Wake pays homage to Lucia, as Joyce poignantly seeks to make amends to his beloved daughter and convince her that all may still be well.--Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books Carol Loeb Shloss is an Acting Professor at Stanford University. She has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists. She divides her time between Stanford, California and the coast of Maine.

Awards: National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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Lucia Joyce : To Dance in the Wake

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.06 inches

Width: 5.0 inches

Length: 8.88 inches

Weight: 17.64 oz

Pages: 576