Dotter of Her Father's Eyes
98 pages · Released 2012 · Random House
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LGBTQ+ themes
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This graphic memoir interweaves two coming-of-age stories (Lucia Joyce and author Mary Talbot) across different eras, exploring mental illness, family dysfunction, and thwarted ambitions with emotional depth. While the book is intelligent and literary, it addresses serious themes including mental health crises, institutionalization, and family trauma that require maturity to process. The visual storytelling is sophisticated rather than gratuitous, but the subject matter—particularly around mental illness and its social consequences—makes this best suited for older teens.
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Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives- that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal trage... Part personal history, part biography, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes contrasts two coming-of-age narratives- that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Social expectations and gender politics, thwarted ambitions and personal tragedy are played out against two contrasting historical backgrounds, poignantly evoked by the atmospheric visual storytelling of award winning comic artist and graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot. Produced through an intense collaboration seldom seen between writers and artists, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is intelligent, funny and sad - a fine addition to the evolving genre of graphic memoir.
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- Biography & Autobiography
- Fiction, biographical
- Comics & graphic novels, general
- Comic books, strips
- 21.39 graphic arts: other
- Father-Child Relations
- Graphic novels
- Fathers and daughters
- Mental illness
- Family relationships
- Medicine
- Irish Novelists
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ISBN 9780224096089 · Random House