James Joyce: A Literary Life

by Morris Beja

Morris Beja's James Joyce: A Literary Life is a concise, crisp, and fluent narrative that hovers close to the biographical sources as well as to Joyce's literary works in a skillful interweaving of the two, quite exactly a 'literary life.'

Genres: Literature, Nonfiction

150 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

At 125 quick pages, Beja, a respected Joycean, covers a good deal of ground. Ellman's biography remains the best, definitive life of Joyce, but is too daunting and scholarly for most causal fans. For those who want to understand the contours of the man's life and work, this isn't a bad starting point.

[Yusak Lie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a short biography of Joyce for the general reader.