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
felt that the world had turned its back on him, and she asks how could
it be otherwise for a man who knew that conflict is the source of all
creation.
'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
James Joyce - Edna O'Brien
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