num_pages: 560
description: Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain James Joyce, 1934 Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different and more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia and they shared a deep creative bond. Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. Lucia was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalised in the 1930s he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own. Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, in this important book Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life.
language: English
title: Lucia Joyce : To Dance in the Wake
titlecomplete: Lucia Joyce : To Dance in the Wake
genres: Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 142
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography
publisher: Bloomsbury