Lucia Joyce

Name: Lucia Joyce
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To Dance in the Wake

By Carol Loeb Shloss

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Lucia Joyce by Carol Loeb Shloss is a compelling exploration of the life of James Joyce's talented and troubled daughter, Lucia. The biography delves into her struggles with mental illness and her aspirations as a dancer, capturing the complexity of her relationship with her family and the cultural constraints of her time. Through rich detail and scholarly insight, Shloss seeks to illuminate the often-overlooked story of Lucia's influence and significance in the Joyce family legacy.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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If you're fascinated by the often overlooked narratives of historical figures, this biography offers an intriguing exploration of the life of James Joyce's daughter, shedding light on her complex relationship with her famous father and her own artistic aspirations. It's a compelling read for those interested in literary history and the personal struggles that can accompany extraordinary creativity.

Covers the remarkable life of James Joyce's only daughter.

A remarkable and previously uncharted biography of Joyce's only daughter Lucia - tragic muse and wild beautyFor fans of Clare Tomalin and Judith Thurman and will appeal to all those fascinated by Joyce, as well as all readers of women's livesA compelling and sad story - guaranteed media coverage and national press serialisation

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"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain" - James Joyce, 1934.

Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. However, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different and more dramatic truth in Lucia Joyce: Joyce loved Lucia and they shared a deep creative bond.

Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own, and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. Lucia was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalised in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own.

Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, in this important book, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life.

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Lucia Joyce by Carol Loeb Shloss is celebrated for its insightful and poignant exploration of Lucia Joyce's influence on her father, James Joyce, with new details and rare photographs enriching the narrative. The biography is recognised for its compelling portrayal of the complexities of Lucia's life and her impact on her father's work, offering a fresh perspective on their relationship. Shloss's expertise on Lucia's contributions to dance in the 1920s and her depiction of paternal devotion is both convincing and impressive.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780747574132

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 June 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 576

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Biography & Memoir Carol Loeb Shloss Non-Fiction

About the Author

Carol Loeb Shloss teaches English at Stanford University. She has written extensively on Joyce and other modernists and is the author of three other books including a story of Flannery O'Connor. She lives in Palo Alto, California.