Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss

Authors

  • John Banville

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v6i1.183846

Abstract

The life of Lucia Joyce, so Carol Loeb Shloss tells us, “is a story that was not supposed to be told.” (p. 11) In her attempts to recount the tale of James Joyce’s troubled daughter, Shloss met many obstacles, chief among them, she implies, the remaining members of the immediate Joyce family, and particularly Joyce’s grandson, Stephen, “the very person who ... decided that [Lucia’s] story should remain buried in the dark cellars of ‘family privacy’.” (p. 455)

Author Biography

  • John Banville

    BANVILLE, John was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His first book, Long
    Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books include Doctor Copernicus, which won
    the 1976 Tait Black Memorial Prize, Kepler, which won the 1981 Guardian Prize for
    Fiction, and The Bookf of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize
    and won the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award. He has also received a literary award
    from the Lannan Foundation. His most recent novel is Shroud. He lives in Dublin.

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Published

2004-06-30

Issue

Vol. 6 (2004): ABEI Journal 6

Section

Bloomsday Centenary

License

Copyright (c) 2004 John Banville

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How to Cite

Banville, J. (2004). Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss. ABEI Journal, 6(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v6i1.183846