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Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes (2012)

by Mary M. Talbot(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1595828508 (ISBN13: 9781595828507)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Dark Horse Books

review 1: Another book I bought in London was what I can best describe as a graphic memoir/biography. Told in comic book form, the story compares the life stories of Lucia Joyce, the daughter of the famous writer James Joyce, and that of the book’s author Mary Talbot, daughter of the foremost Joycean scholar, James S. Atherton. Both narratives begin with the girls’ childhood and show their struggles to grow up in the shadows of difficult and demanding fathers. Lucia wants to dance, but is confined by the petty societal rules of her time. She ends up confined in a madhouse. Mary rebels against her father, and forges a life for herself. The book shows how she fell in love with a young artist and married him – he is, of course, Bryan Talbot, the illustrator whose incredible artw... moreork adorns every page. The book is acutely intelligent but highly readable, illuminating both the heartbreakingly sad story of Lucia James and the work of two exceptional contemporary artists. Not surpisingly, Dotter of My Father’s Eyes won the 2012 Costa biography award.
review 2: This is a book about fathas and daughters, about fathers and dotters of i's. 'Gender politics' is too heavy a phrase for it - this personalizes the political, as opposed to its opposite. The great enjoyment of the work is in seeing how it packs ambiguity even into the most apparently simple of scenes. The words and pictures work together as nexus of symbols, opening out interpretations while the whole keeps a nice linear track. less

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