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Book SynopsisJames Joyce (Author) James Joyce was born on 2 February 1882 in Dublin. He studied modern languages at University College, Dublin. After graduating, Joyce moved to Paris for a brief period in 1902. In 1904 Joyce met Nora Barnacle, with whom he would spend the rest of his life and they moved to Europe and settled in Trieste where Joyce worked as a teacher. His first published work was a book of poems called
Chamber Music (1907). This was followed by D
ubliners (1914),
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and the play
Exiles (1918). In 1915 the First World War forced Joyce and Nora and their two children to move to Zürich. Joyce's most famous novel,
Ulysses, was published in Paris in 1922. In the same year he started work on his last great book,
Finnegan's Wake (1939). James Joyce died in Zürich on 13 January 1941.
John Banville (Introducer) John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. His first book,
Long Lankin, was published in 1970. His other books are
Nightspawn; Birchwood; Doctor Copernicus, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976;
Kepler, which was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1981;
The Newton Letter, which was filmed for Channel 4;
Mefisto and
The Book of Evidence, which was shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize and won the 1989 Guinness Peat Aviation Award. John Banville is literary editor of the
Irish Times and lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Trade ReviewJoyce's stories remain undimmed in their brilliance * Sunday Times *
Dubliners is interested in all of us, rich and poor, old and young, men and women. It's filled with humour and love, pain and loss. Above all, it rings out with a love of these streets, of the voices of the people who inhabit them -- John Boyne
Truly exhilarating...a vivid, detailed and breathtaking portrait of a city and its citizens * Irish Times *
