I couldn't wait to see what was coming next in Belle's life." - Sara Powers, elementary teacher "I loved the way she describes life on a small farm in the early 1900's." - Gwen Rice, librarian "What a woman!" - David Martin, Editor of Fine Lines Sitting at the table was a rail thin woman I'd never seen before. She had raven black hair, shapely black eyebrows, bright red lipstick, and thick pancake makeup. She was wearing red silk lounging pajamas with white polka dots. Her nails were long and also red. A large diamond adorned one finger, and numerous rings were scattered on her other fingers. The final touch was the cigarette in a long black holder. When introductions were made, I learned this was Aunt Belle, it seemed obvious even to an eight-year-old that everyone wished Aunt Belle would just disappear. Joyce Dunn reveals the life and times of a bigger-than-life character trying to shape the world and find her place in it.
Joyce takes you on a journey through an alcohol treatment center. With stories that are by turns funny, sad or touching she introduces you to some of the people she worked with, both patients and staff. If you have ever wondered how treatemnt for alcoholism or chemical dependence works, and why it sometimes doesn't this is a book for you. It is also a tale of personal growth and how everyone uses some form of denial to keep their own personal demons at bay.
TWO INTENSE STORIES, WITH POETRY IN FRONT OF EACH CHAPTER. THE FIRST STORY IS; HOW THIS CHILD LOST HER PARENTS AT A YOUNG AGE, THEN BEFREINDED BY HER COUSINS HUSBAND, RAPED FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS UNTIL SHE FINALLY FINDS A WAY OUT THROUGH A FRIEND. POETRY, AND THE SECOND STORY IS; ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL AND HER MOTHER -A JOURNEY TO REMEMBER- AS THEY TRAVEL WITH LITTLE OR NO MONEY FROM CALIFORNIA TO PENNSYLVANIA PRAYING AND RECEIVING GIFTS AND A SAFE PASSAGE WITH GODS HELPING HAND.
This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles. Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also a highly accomplished poet. Chamber Music is his debut collection of lyrical love poems, which he intended to be set to music; in it, he enlivens the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of playful irony. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written while Joyce was working on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sounds intimately autobiographical notes of passion and betrayal that would go on to resonate throughout the rest of his work. Joyce’s other poems include the moving “Ecce Puer,” written on the occasion of the birth of his grandson, and his fiery satires “The Holy Office” and “Gas from a Burner.” Exiles was written after Joyce had left Ireland, never to return; it is a richly nuanced drama that reflects a grappling with the state of his own marriage and career as he was about to embark on the writing of Ulysses. In its tale of an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle, Exiles engages Joycean themes of envy and jealousy, freedom and love, men and women, and the complicated relationship between an artist and his homeland.
A comprehensive, accessible introduction to Joyce's work and provides the reader glimpses into some of the lesser read corners of his bibliography." — The Lexicon Devil Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882–1941) led the vanguard of 20th-century fiction. Sooner or later, most undergraduates encounter him, and many scholars devote their entire careers to his exuberantly eloquent prose. Joyce's experimental use of language and stream-of-consciousness techniques continues to captivate modern readers and writers, and this anthology offers a first-rate introduction to the Irish author's fiction and poetry. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce's coming-of-age novel, appears here in its entirety. Readers will also find the complete texts of the short story collection Dubliners, and the play Exiles. Additional contents include highlights from Ulysses, universally acknowledged as among the English language's most challenging and rewarding novels, and Chamber Music, an early book of poems.
The Portable James Joyce, edited and with an introduction by Harry Levin, includes four of the six books on which Joyce's astonishing reputatuion is founded: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man; his Collected Poems (including Chamber Music); Exiles, Joyce's only drama; and his volume of short stories, Dubliners. In addition, there is a generous sampling from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, including the famous "Anna Livia Plurabelle" episode.
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