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Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
Nora The Real Life of Molly Bloom
Author: Brenda Maddox
In 1904, having known each other for only three months, a young woman named Nora Barnacle and a not yet famous writer named James Joyce left Ireland together for Europe -- unwed. So began a deep and complex partnership, and eventually a marriage, which endured for thirty-seven years. — This is the true story of Nora, the woman who, transformed by...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780395365106
ISBN-10: 0395365104
Publication Date: 6/1988
Pages: 472
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Nora Joyce has long been seen as a shrew who was a poor cook, basically illiterate, and an unlikely helpmate for the greatest novelist of the 20th century. Maddox presents a different Noraperfectly ordinary, in the Joycean sense of the word. A caring, devoted wife, with a sharp tongue, fine wit, and strong sense of survival, Nora not only made Joyce a man, but also, at least in part, the author he was. Nora was the model for many of Joyce's heroines, from Lily in "The Dead" to Molly of Ulysses and Anna Livia Plurabelle of Finnegans Wake. A carefully written, sensitive study that offers many new insights on the Joyces' family life. Essential for Joyceans. Donald Kaczvinsky, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park
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Very easy to read biography of a complex woman in an unusual, for its time, relationship with a famous man. Almost makes me want to read Joyce . . . almost!


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