Thinly disguised autobiography
It's and wearing the bad clothes and bad hairstyle that everyone wore back then because they didn't realise it was the early Eighties, Josh starts his first year at Oxford busting with hopes, ambitions, and ludicrously unrealistic.
Thinly Disguised Autobiography is the story of that rude awakening, from the horrors of Fleet Street to the thrills of the LA riots, the Es at the Wag to trips....
Stephen Hero
Unpublished novel by James Joyce
For the Canadian bishop, see Stephen Hero (bishop).
Stephen Hero is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce.[1] It is the early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Its published form reflects only a portion of the manuscript: the first 518 pages have disappeared; 383 pages remain.
Background
Work on Stephen Hero probably began in Dublin in 1903,[3] although some scholarship suggests a date between 1904 and 1906.[4] According to Derek Attridge, it was to be "a thinly disguised autobiography, stylistically undistinguished and immensely long."[3]
Joyce abandoned the work in Trieste in 1905.[3] It was left among manuscripts given to the care of his brother Stanislaus when Joyce moved to Paris, who later sent it back to him.[5]Sylvia Beach, to whom Joyce later gave the surviving pages, wrote that, "When the manuscr
