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Bezig met laden... Dotter of her Father's Eyes (2012)door Mary M. Talbot (Writer), Bryan Talbot (Illustrator)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Mostly two-tone, some colour throughout. Excellent parallel stories of Mary Talbot and Lucia Joyce. I knew nothing of either person before I read this book, and both lives were equally intriguing; Mary (is Bryan Talbot's wife), tells of her relationship with her father (James Stephen Atherton) who was a scholar of James Joyce; and Lucia was James Joyce's daughter. The book sets out their lives including a social commentary of the times they are set in. I must admit I am finding parts of the book muddled in my memory due to the overlapping way it was presented, but I guess that was the idea of the author, drawing the parallels.
gender politics is very much the powerful engine that hums beneath the bonnet of the dual narrative – or, more specifically, the opportunities (or lack thereof) offered to young women. ...This is a slim volume in relatively small dimensions, but it's a surprisingly dense narrative. It's a bit like the Tardis: much bigger on the inside. Both narratives are elegantly done. Talbot has a keen eye for the revealing detail, an important skill if you are working in comics. She makes connections, but never labours them. ... their exquisite and moving book feels like a celebration, for all that there is so much sadness between its covers. It says: we have survived – and we still like each other so much, we have made this. Prijzen
Contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The story interleaves Mary's life and her memories of her father, a James Joyce scholar, and that of Joyce's own daughter Lucia. Both threads were okay, but neither were strong enough as written to carry the book on their own. And neither particularly added anything to the other. So they just ended up propping each other up. Also Lucia's story comes to dominate the book, which is reasonable, but leaves the book feeling a little lopsided. Unfortunately it felt like two disjunct sequences of events, rather than a well-crafted narrative.
Part of the problem is that this feels like an ambitious book, but the execution didn't live up to my expectation. I normally don't mind when a book over-reaches, and can't quite pull things together. Unfortunately, in this case I felt that it under-reached.
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