{"product_id":"2026200016010-secondhand-james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist","title":"James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew literary figures have loomed as large over the twentieth century as James Joyce, and Stan Gébler Davies's James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist offers a vivid, authoritative account of the man behind the masterworks. This biography chronicles Joyce's turbulent life — from his Catholic upbringing in Dublin and his self-imposed exile across Europe, to his relentless, visionary pursuit of a literary language unlike anything the world had seen — painting an intimate portrait of genius shadowed by poverty, family strife, and failing eyesight.\n\nDavies writes with a journalist's sharp instinct and a scholar's rigour, cutting through the mythology that so often obscures Joyce to reveal a man of fierce ambition, volcanic pride, and profound tenderness. The biography illuminates the personal crucibles that forged such monumental works as Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, arguing that Joyce's life and art were inseparable — each feeding the other in an endless loop of observation and reinvention. For anyone seeking to understand how one Irishman remade the English language and redrew the map of modern literature, this is an essential and compulsively readable account.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342771101915,"sku":"2026200016010-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/23b27ab0-3b27-49ae-8cce-18bff937c562.png?v=1790048977","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016010-secondhand-james-joyce-a-portrait-of-the-artist","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}