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    James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography
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    James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner—A Graphic Biography

    By Alfonso Zapico

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    “Zapico gives a thorough and masterful pictorial retelling of Joyce’s life . . . A graphic novel that goes far toward illuminating the enigmatic author” (Foreword Reviews).
     
    Winner of Spain’s National Comic Prize and published to acclaim in Ireland, here is an extraordinary graphic biography of James Joyce that offers a fresh take on his tumultuous life. With evocative anecdotes and hundreds of ink-wash drawings, Alfonso Zapico invites the reader to share Joyce’s journey, from his earliest days in Dublin to his life with his great love, Nora Barnacle, and their children, and his struggles and triumphs as an artist.
     
    Joyce experienced poverty, rejection, censorship, charges of blasphemy and obscenity, war, and crippling ill-health. A rebel and nonconformist in Dublin and a harsh critic of Irish society, he left Ireland in self-imposed exile with Nora, moving to Paris, Pula, Trieste, Rome, London, and finally Zurich. He overcame monumental challenges in creating and publishing Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan’s Wake. Along the way, he encountered a colorful cast of characters, from the Irish nationalists Charles Parnell and Michael Collins to literary greats Yeats, Proust, Hemingway, and Beckett, and the likes of Carl Jung and Vladimir Lenin.
     
    “A well-rounded and honest portrait of a controversial yet brilliant writer, and the genius as well as the artistic temperament shines through on every page.” —Portland Book Review
     
    “Using a traditional sequential panel format, the black-and-white, ink-wash illustrations are surprisingly expressive, capturing Joyce’s jocular manner and rabble-rousing with an indulgent yet objective hand.” —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 3, 2016
    ISBN9781628726589
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    • 5/5
      This is a book about the life and influence of James Joyce. It is a comprehensive biography but full of little details that bring everything to life. The story is engaging and emotional. The drawing is remarkable and fluid, as is the editing. The locations appear realistic though there appears to be an occasional reliance on movie stills for some of the work and the female characters appear to look slightly more Mediterranean than Irish. The book is a good, fun read.