The Lost Leader - James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker reviewed by John Banville | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
From www.tnr.com - July 22, 2012 9:41 PM
James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 608 pp., $35) THERE ARE CERTAIN artistic geniuses who demand that we should know their lives in detail, since for them the story of their lives is a living component of thewider story of their art. In this new biography of James Joyce—the first major one since Richard Ellmann’s monumental Life, now fifty years old—we encounter again an oft-told tale.