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The Joyce girl

Abbs, Annabel2018
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A powerful portrait of a woman whose passion for life burns from the pages. Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in love with budding writer (and fellow Irish expat) Samuel Beckett he is banned from the Joyce family home. 1934. Her life in tatters, Lucia is sent to pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Jung. For years she has kept quiet. Now she decides to speak.
Main title:
The Joyce girl / Annabel Abbs.
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2018.©2016
Collation:
358 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9780733640896 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
342790
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Beaumaris LibraryAdult Fiction - GeneralABBSAvailable
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