{"product_id":"lucia-joyce-to-dance-in-the-wake-paperback","title":"Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarol Loeb Shloss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShloss's 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.--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[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. Shloss's work is important because Lucia was pivotal to Joyce's work.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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 Joyce's story, which Shloss tells so movingly, not only wrings the heart but stirs one's anger.--John Banville, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 Finnegan's 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, \u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarol 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Loeb Shloss\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762457870624,"sku":"9780312422691","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0746211fdffc0e83c3e548c02267a7da_f7913622-4c52-4c4d-a8f3-074272ae8a9e.webp?v=1780221598","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/lucia-joyce-to-dance-in-the-wake-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}