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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. But Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different and more dramatic truth: 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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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Lucia Joyce
• Author: Carol Loeb Shloss
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576
• EAN: 9780747574132
• ISBN: 0747574138
• ID: 04135630
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 608 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 197 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. June 2005

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