James Joyce (5) (1942–)
Auteur de Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
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A propos de l'auteur
James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland, into a large Catholic family. Joyce was a very good pupil, studying poetics, languages, and philosophy at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and the Royal University in Dublin. Joyce taught school in Dalkey, Ireland, before afficher plus marrying in 1904. Joyce lived in Zurich and Triest, teaching languages at Berlitz schools, and then settled in Paris in 1920 where he figured prominently in the Parisian literary scene, as witnessed by Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Joyce's collection of fine short stories, Dubliners, was published in 1914, to critical acclaim. Joyce's major works include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Stephen Hero. Ulysses, published in 1922, is considered one of the greatest English novels of the 20th century. The book simply chronicles one day in the fictional life of Leopold Bloom, but it introduces stream of consciousness as a literary method and broaches many subjects controversial to its day. As avant-garde as Ulysses was, Finnegans Wake is even more challenging to the reader as an important modernist work. Joyce died just two years after its publication, in 1941. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de James Joyce
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1942-07-22
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
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Discussions
James Joyce à Geeks who love the Classics (Décembre 2021)
James Joyce Legacy Library à Legacy Libraries (Septembre 2013)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 19
- Popularité
- #609,294
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2,605
- Langues
- 41
Mr Joyce does a wonderful job with this well-told story and offers the reader an in-depth look at the everyday life of these flying warriors, which isn't, by the way, a nine to five job. The book follows Mr. Joyce from the first day he volunteers to fly planes in college, through his fixed wing flight training and later reassignment to a helicopter squadron, and then during his tour in Vietnam. The author also has a fantastic sense of humor that sometimes catches you off-guard and will make you laugh out loud. After reading Pucker Factor 10, I have bumped up these pilots a couple of notches on my high esteem list. I also have a much better understanding of what these sky warriors had to endure in order to survive...sadly, many did not!
Five stars and highly recommended!
John Podlaski, author
Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel… (plus d'informations)