{"product_id":"joyce-girl-book-annabel-abbs-9780062912879","title":"The Joyce Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Abbs has found a gripping and little-known story\u003cbr\u003e at the heart of one of the 20th century's most astonishing creative moments,\u003cbr\u003e researched it deeply, and brought the extraordinary Joyce family and their\u003cbr\u003e circle in 1920s Paris to richly-imagined life.\"--Emma Darwin, bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e of A Secret Alchemy and The Mathematics of Love\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor readers who adored novels like The Paris Wife, Z, and Loving Frank, comes Annabel Abbs highly praised debut novel, where she spins the story of James Joyce's fascinating, and tragic, daughter, Lucia. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"When she reaches her full capacity for rhythmic dancing,\u003cbr\u003e James Joyce may yet be known as his daughter's father . . .\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe review in the Paris Times in November 1928 is\u003cbr\u003e rapturous in its praise of Lucia Joyce's skill and artistry as a dancer. The\u003cbr\u003e family has made their home in Paris--where the latest ideas in art,\u003cbr\u003e music, and literature converge\u003cu\u003e.\u003c\/u\u003e Acolytes regularly visit the Joyce\u003cbr\u003e apartment to pay homage to Ireland's exiled literary genius. Among them is a\u003cbr\u003e tall, thin young man named Samuel Beckett--a fellow Irish expat who idolizes\u003cbr\u003e Joyce and with whom Lucia becomes romantically involved. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLucia is both gifted and motivated,\u003cbr\u003e training tirelessly with some of the finest teachers in the world. Though her\u003cbr\u003e father delights in his daughter's talent, she clashes with her mother, Nora.\u003cbr\u003e And as her relationship with Beckett sours, Lucia's dreams unravel, as does her\u003cbr\u003e hope of a life beyond her father's shadow. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith Lucia's behavior growing\u003cbr\u003e increasingly erratic, James Joyce sends her to pioneering psychoanalyst Carl\u003cbr\u003e Jung. Here, at last, she will tell her own story--a fascinating, heartbreaking\u003cbr\u003e account of thwarted ambition, passionate creativity, and the power of love to\u003cbr\u003e both inspire and destroy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Joyce Girl creates a compelling and\u003cbr\u003e moving account of the real-life Joyce Girl, of unrealized dreams and rejection,\u003cbr\u003e and of the destructive love of a father.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49558184329489,"sku":"GOR011541174","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49564036497681,"sku":"CIN0062912879G","price":4.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643770773777,"sku":"GOR012786090","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50761395896593,"sku":"CIN0062912879VG","price":5.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51300242129169,"sku":"NIN9780062912879","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52928854819089,"sku":"CIN0062912879A","price":5.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062912879.jpg?v=1751450766","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/joyce-girl-book-annabel-abbs-9780062912879","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}