Samuel Beckett's long-standing friend, James Knowlson, recreatesBeckett's youth in Ireland, his studies at Trinity College, Dublin inthe early 1920s and from there to the Continent, where he plunged intothe multicultural literary society of late-1920s Paris. The biographythrows new light on Beckett's stormy relationship with his mother, thepsychotherapy he received after the death of his father and his crucialrelationship with James Joyce. There is also material on Beckett'ssix-month visit to G ...