Book club continues to find new meaning in James Joyce tome 28 years after opening it

Complex but open to interpretation, ‘Finnegans Wake’ continues to endure

James Joyce spent 17 years writing 'Finnegans Wake' following the release of his magnum opus 'Ulysses'. Photo: Getty Images

Kyle Melnick
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The moment a California book club had been working toward for 28 years arrived on a Zoom call last month.

About 20 people who called in from various places across the world took turns reading the final page of Finnegans Wake, a 1939 novel by James Joyce.