Kevin Birmingham is a lecturer in History & Literature at Harvard. He was a bartender in a Dublin pub featured in ULYSSES for one day before he was unceremoniously fired. This is his first book.
'Riveting ... populated with enough larger-than-life characters and
twists to make a fiction writer envious' Matthew Pearl.
'A wonderfully eye-opening read ... superb' Frank Delaney.
'Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to
life' Louis Menand.
'Kevin Birmingham has a deep love of Ulysses, and knows everything
about Joyce. His learned book is a gripping page-tuner' A. N.
Wilson, Sunday Telegraph.
'A riveting account of just how difficult it was to bring Ulysses
into the world' Sunday Herald.
'It is a wonderful guide to the 20th century's most dangerous,
brilliant book' The Sunday Times.
'With humour, excitement and conspicuous scholarship, literary
historian Kevin Birmingham recounts the creation of the novel, the
fight against censorship, and the establishment of a classic that
changed the face of literature' The Good Book Guide.
'Few books about publishing manage to be this gripping. Like the
novel which it takes as its subject, it deserves to be read'
Economist.
'Birmingham tells the story with a mixture of compelling insight
and deeply researched knowledge to form that most unusual hybrid:
an erudite page-turner' Mail on Sunday.
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