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| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Popular Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Joyce
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 27600
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 1
ISBN: 0140622306
EAN: 9780140622300
ASIN: 0140622306
Publication Date: January 25, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Paperback. Unread copy, creased on the front cover, general shelf wear. Internally clean. Very good condition.
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 Affirm and enrich February 5, 2005
13 out of 25 found this review helpful
You're probably already aware how great this book is, I just don't want you to be put off by the misguided-beyond-belief comments in some of the previous reviews on the Amazon site. For an example, look at the review above by landerke@eircom.net - this piece of work can't summon the concentration to find the correct spelling of 'generaly', or even grasp basic punctuation, and yet HERE HE IS, telling us NOT to read POTAAAYM? For the love of Chrimony, if the ramblings of probably drugged, misinformed illiterates are the sweetest fruits of cyber-democracy, then I hope the Bush administration's plan to dismantle the 'I'nternet are realised with good haste.
"to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life"- Joyce's words have the power to restore your faith in humanity. Read em
 boring, boring, boring October 21, 2003
5 out of 35 found this review helpful
Sorry, not my kind of thing; subjectivism run riot, and I fairly couldn't see the point of the whole exercise.
 A book of a time, of a place, of a mood. September 10, 2001
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book immerses the reader in the life of Irish adolescent in a way that not only involves the reader but provokes him, excites him, amuses him and challenges him. Joyce was a writer of genius, he told tales were the narrative was the tale and narrated tales were the tale was the narrative. He expands the the novel form to give a complete experience, powerful, majestic, astonishing. This novel is not as good as Ulysses but this is no criticism: for Ulysses operates at at a different level of beauty. Read this and then Ulysses
possibly one of the greatest books... September 3, 2001
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
In this book James Joyce recounts his memories of childhood through to adulthood with an insight into the mind of an young, impressionable Catholic boy in Northern Ireland at a time of political unrest. Using the style of 'stream of consciousness' Joyce weighs up the effects religion and sex have on his life and relationships with others. The overall picture portrayed is that of an ironical, older Joyce looking back upon the follies and arrogance of the younger Joyce. Highly recommended!
buy another joyce book June 22, 2000
5 out of 24 found this review helpful
yeah, I might be a barbaric illiterate.... but do yourself a favour and get another book from joyce. it cant be worse than this. pages of pages of childhood memories, filled with "is there a god" , "family drama & politics" and generaly contemporary stuff. contemporary for the last century that is, so now its boring as hell, unless your into history or a joyce fan
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