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<p><P>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.<P>"Shloss'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."&#151;<i>Time</i> <P>"[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."&#151;<i>The New York Times </i><P>"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 Joyce's story, which Shloss tells so movingly, not only wrings the heart but stirs one's anger."&#151;John Banville, <i>The New York Review of Books</i><P>"The most impressive feature of her book is the delicacy with

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Author

Carol Loeb Shloss

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466832701

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.74 / 5 (68 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14