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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

3.0

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In which, James Joyce describes life growing up as a Catholic schoolboy. A book of uneven quality and readability - one or two chapters of personal anecdotes about how gloomy he is, followed by a lengthy sermon on the nature of Hell, followed by some more personal stories, apparently from the POV of him as 'no longer a young man'. Overall, more an exploration of Catholicism than of James Joyce's life. And, as a sidenote, that's a bit of a false title - more like 'A portrait of the Artist, who used to be a young man'.