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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Annabel Abbs, winner of the Impress Prize for New Writing and the Spotlight First Novel Award. Annabel discusses her novel The Joyce Girl, which was published in the UK in 2015, and is being published in the USA for the first time in 2020 by our friends at William Morrow. Topics of discussion include Lucia Joyce, what it is like putting words in James Joyce's mouth, trends in the first lines of novels, Carl Jung, Ulysses as a work of pornography, D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and much more. Copies of The Joyce Girl can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.
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This week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by Annabel Abbs, winner of the Impress Prize for New Writing and the Spotlight First Novel Award. Annabel discusses her novel The Joyce Girl, which was published in the UK in 2015, and is being published in the USA for the first time in 2020 by our friends at William Morrow. Topics of discussion include Lucia Joyce, what it is like putting words in James Joyce's mouth, trends in the first lines of novels, Carl Jung, Ulysses as a work of pornography, D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and much more. Copies of The Joyce Girl can be ordered here with FREE SHIPPING.

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