James Joyce: The years of growth, 1882-1915 - Peter Costello

JAMES JOYCE: THE YEARS OF GROWTH is a major biography of one of this century’s literary giants. Peter Costello concentrates on James Joyce’s early life in Dublin, since it was this period of obscurity that provided him with the material for Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and even Finnegans Wake. He draws on recently discovered and previously overlooked sources to show how Joyce’s beginnings – his education, his relationship with his siblings, his youthful loss of faith and his first sexual experiences – shaped him as a writer. Peter Costello sheds new important light on his subject while bringing Joyce to life in a vivid and memorable manner.