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by: Carol Loeb Shloss
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780312422691
ISBN: 0312422695
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: March 01, 2005
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Sales Rank: 567471
Studio: Picador
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In this ground breaking work Carol Shloss shows the extraordinary influence that James Joyce's daughter Lucia exercised on her father's 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 father's life, to a creative kindred spirit.
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Rating: - Her proper place in her father's story
This review is based in good part on Joan Acocella 's comprehensive review which first appeared in 'The New Yorker'. It also makes use of information provided by D.T. Max in a story on Joyce's grandson , Stephen Joyce and his efforts to protect the family from too close public scrutiny.
Shloss worked for many years on this book, and her aim is to both rehabilitate Lucia Joyce from the image given of her by Joyce scholars Richard Ellmann( The great Joyce biographer) and Brenda Maddox( Biographer ... Read More
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