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Loading... The Woodcutter and his Familyby Frank McGuinness
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fictional biography in four voice: son, mother, daughter, himself with a short story at the end. This was nothing I'd recommend to anyone but a diehard Joyce aficionado. Not well done. The voices are indistinct from one another: the content of each varies but is not well integrated into the whole. The conception is an interesting one--but never fully realized. Too many unexplored possibilities. The short but rave review in the TLS was just nonsense. no reviews | add a review
My son betrayed me. It is a family tradition. Didn't I do the same to my father? The World War intensifies in Europe. In Zurich a writer breathes his last imagining his life till now from his childhood in Dublin. The voices of his family circling him - wife, son, daughter - carry him to his end as he hears each separate chapter chronicling the power of their passion for their famous father, their love, their hate, their need, their sorrows and joys, their strangeness. And James Joyce has saved for them one last story to delight and defy them: The Woodcutter And His Children ... No library descriptions found. |
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