pJames Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work iFinnegans Wakei amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries and personal accounts, this book explores one of the central relationships of his final years that with his friend, confidant and adviser Paul L. Lon. p Providing first-hand accounts of Joyce's Paris circle - which included Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov - the book makes available again the text of Lucie Lon Noel's personal memoir of the relationship between her husband and the Irish writer published as iJames Joyce and Paul L. Lon The Story of Friendshipi in 1950, including his valiant rescue of Joyce's Paris archives from occupying Nazi forces. The book also collects for the first time Leon's clandestine letters to his wife from August to December 1941, chronicling his desperate state of body and mind while interned