PATRICK A. MCCARTHY is a professor of English and the the editor of James Joyce Literary Supplement at the University of Miami. His books include The Riddles of "Finnegans Wake," Olaf Stapledon, "Ulysses": Portals of Discovery, and an edition of Malcolm Lowry's La Mordida.

In a rare mix of diligent scholarship and insightful criticism, [McCarthy] offers us, very likely for the first time, a sense of the novelist's life work, of its continuity and its considerable worth.

PATRICK A. MCCARTHY is a professor of English and the the editor of James Joyce Literary Supplement at the University of Miami. His books include The Riddles of "Finnegans Wake," Olaf Stapledon, "Ulysses": Portals of Discovery, and an edition of Malcolm Lowry's La Mordida.

In a rare mix of diligent scholarship and insightful criticism, [McCarthy] offers us, very likely for the first time, a sense of the novelist's life work, of its continuity and its considerable worth.

PATRICK A. MCCARTHY is a professor of English and the the editor of James Joyce Literary Supplement at the University of Miami. His books include The Riddles of "Finnegans Wake," Olaf Stapledon, "Ulysses": Portals of Discovery, and an edition of Malcolm Lowry's La Mordida.

In a rare mix of diligent scholarship and insightful criticism, [McCarthy] offers us, very likely for the first time, a sense of the novelist's life work, of its continuity and its considerable worth.