Download or read book The Years of Bloom written by John McCourt and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living in Trieste, Joyce wrote most of the stories in Dubliners, turned Stephen Hero into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and began Ulysses. This biography uses previously unused Italian sources to recreate a fertile period in Joyce's life.