Description
| Product ID: | 9781529424393 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
| Title: | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Subtitle: | (riverrun editions) |
| Authors: | Author: James Joyce |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Classical texts, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface. A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the modernist magazine The Egoist in 1914, before it came out as a book in 1916, the year of the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. An autobiographical 'coming of age' story, A Portrait is Joyce's first novel. Many elements of Joyce's own life - his Catholic schooling, his family circumstances and his father's financial difficulties, as well as his sexual, political and artistic awakenings - are fictionalized and in it he skilfully extend the English language, as it opens with a child's voice rendered by a third-person narrator, and closes with the mature Stephen's first-person reflections. ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature'' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface. |
| Imprint Name: | riverrun |
| Publisher Name: | Quercus Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-03-14 |