Further Adventures of James Joyce edition by Colm Herron Literature Fiction eBooks
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Further Adventures of James Joyce tells about the remarkable events that took place during the twenty-four hours that James Joyce spent in Derry on the day he came back from the dead. Randy as a goat and raring to write after many years of deprivation, James decides among other things to pen a novel that s bang up-to-date, sexy, outrageous and accessible to one and all. Saints, scholars and those in search of a good horny read. It is a book that is already in line to win the inaugural Good Sex Award at a ceremony to be held in Maynooth College, the gold phallic statuette to be presented, rumour has it, by the Catholic Primate himself
Further Adventures of James Joyce edition by Colm Herron Literature Fiction eBooks
This is the second novel I’ve read set in the times and place of the Irish Troubles. The other is Engineering Paradise by David Gardner, a cracking insight into why a young lad became a bomber and——Oi, this review is supposed to be for Herron’s book.
Who said that?
I’m Myles, the anti-hero character in Further Adventures of James Joyce. Now get on with the proper review.
Right. Oddly, I was going to mention author intrusion then you, Myles, aren’t the author yet you intruded into the narrative. Initially, I found you an irritant but after a while I looked for your witty insights and redirection. It’s as if this novel is a self-referential work, self-editing as it went along. Experimental, worthy of JJ. Indeed there are other parallels such as you Myles and your lover, Melanie taking off in the 80-year-old wake of James Joyce and his lover, Nora. How poignant then for a real Joyce quote to appear – among others -
O Ireland, my one and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove.
This novel brims with angst and laughter, set in pubs and streets and, of course, the bedroom. There’s literary flashes in setting such as: ‘The sun glittered fitfully on the oxbow bend of a river...’ and telling chunks of social history especially of relationships such as ‘The Church gives you the fire and brimstone treatment from you’re seven and then when you’re seventeen the Health Service takes over.’ Brilliant. As is much of the imagery even in a scene of terrifying danger: ‘three photographers...sank like a collapsed tripod.’
Love it, Myles, when your book (within this book), Chamber Noises, achieves notoriety, just as JJ’s books did. I can hear the protests: ‘Down with this sort of thing’ but without the ‘Careful now’.
I commend and recommend this novel to any aficionado of the ‘Troubles’, anything Irish, and for non-troubled non-Irish story readers.
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Further Adventures of James Joyce edition by Colm Herron Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I recently discovered this author and bought this book after reading another of his called, "The Wake." I adored that book and this one didn't disappoint either. Colm Herron has a wonderful writing style that submerges you in the Irish culture and language. You almost feel like you are a fly on the wall. His ability to recapture life in 1980's Northern Ireland is amazing. I can't even imagine how much meticulous checking of facts went into making this book historically accurate. As with Herron's other books this story is completely character driven and the characters are incredibly well rounded.
This heartfelt book, this startling piece of metafiction, this sexy love story--all three in one--is quite moving on all these levels. Herron, a deep reader of James Joyce, has bravely attempted to communicate with the dead author, to write with a strong omniscient and interior voice and to take on the matter of writing fiction in the first place, of creating something out of nothing. The book also takes on the troubles in Northern Ireland where Herron lives and, in particular in 1988, with as the Joyce scholar Morris Beja puts it in his review in the prestigious James Joyce Quarterly, "In the background and sometimes in the foreground, we are in the world of the killings by the SAS of Mairéad Farrell, Dan McCann, and Sean Savage in Gibraltar in March and then the murders of three mourners at their funeral in the Milltown cemetery in Belfast." The most compelling threads are the narrator's self as Myles Corrigan attempting to figure out the nature of love through his own adventures and through those of his good friend Conn Doherty who takes a figural bath in the close, meaning doused pretty hard by the writer Myles Corrigan. I ultimately concluded that this book takes seriously all of its threads and that despite the author's protestations to the contrary in the metafictional sections--where he speaks to himself, to Joyce, to another from the dead and to the reader--that this is a book of faith. Faith in the power of art to heal, faith in challenging literature that will transform you if you are willing to stay with a difficult story and faith ultimately in friendship and love--with a dose of irony for good measure.
This is the second novel I’ve read set in the times and place of the Irish Troubles. The other is Engineering Paradise by David Gardner, a cracking insight into why a young lad became a bomber and—
—Oi, this review is supposed to be for Herron’s book.
Who said that?
I’m Myles, the anti-hero character in Further Adventures of James Joyce. Now get on with the proper review.
Right. Oddly, I was going to mention author intrusion then you, Myles, aren’t the author yet you intruded into the narrative. Initially, I found you an irritant but after a while I looked for your witty insights and redirection. It’s as if this novel is a self-referential work, self-editing as it went along. Experimental, worthy of JJ. Indeed there are other parallels such as you Myles and your lover, Melanie taking off in the 80-year-old wake of James Joyce and his lover, Nora. How poignant then for a real Joyce quote to appear – among others -
O Ireland, my one and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove.
This novel brims with angst and laughter, set in pubs and streets and, of course, the bedroom. There’s literary flashes in setting such as ‘The sun glittered fitfully on the oxbow bend of a river...’ and telling chunks of social history especially of relationships such as ‘The Church gives you the fire and brimstone treatment from you’re seven and then when you’re seventeen the Health Service takes over.’ Brilliant. As is much of the imagery even in a scene of terrifying danger ‘three photographers...sank like a collapsed tripod.’
Love it, Myles, when your book (within this book), Chamber Noises, achieves notoriety, just as JJ’s books did. I can hear the protests ‘Down with this sort of thing’ but without the ‘Careful now’.
I commend and recommend this novel to any aficionado of the ‘Troubles’, anything Irish, and for non-troubled non-Irish story readers.
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