{"product_id":"a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man","title":"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eStephen Dedalus grows up in a Dublin of Jesuit schools, nationalist argument, and family decline, moving from pious child to self-styled exile. Joyce charts the transformation through language itself: the baby-talk of the opening gives way to adolescent rhetoric, then to the colder prose of a young man deciding what he owes to country, church, and family, and what he refuses to owe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSignet Classics edition includes Hugh Kenner's introduction, useful for readers who want to know what they are getting into. The novel is the great farewell to nineteenth-century realism disguised as a bildungsroman. It suits the reader who suspects that growing up means learning which nets to fly by and which to cut, and who is willing to read a novel that begins in baby talk and ends in exile.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabound","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48479466193108,"sku":"0451525442","price":5.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/5410\/7860\/files\/9780451525444.jpg?v=1786812324","url":"https:\/\/checkout.vagaboundbooks.com\/products\/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man","provider":"Vagabound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}