Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction
The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance. Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"
James Joyce s big blue book, "Ulysses," ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all t[...]
"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page."--Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Metaphysical Club"
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'The bomb has exploded. It will blow a hole in the well-guarded prison of English Literature.' The Quarterly Review. THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK tells the painful, heartbreaking, exhilirating story of how Joyce's novel was conceived, written, published, burned, acclaimed and excoriated before taking its[...]