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Garrett Cash
Dec 28, 2013 rated it it was ok
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The early, more straight-forward, manuscript of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that Joyce through into the fire and was saved by his family. Stephen is essentially a jerk through the whole manuscript, and most of it revolves around him arguing with people about literary-theory and religion. I can see why it was going in the fire. ...more
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Steve
Feb 12, 2013 rated it liked it
It does make an interesting postscript to my Joyce odyssey. It wuld have been a good novel if Joyce had tried harder to keep his philosophical ramblings out of it.All in all, it is a curio, nothing more.
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