Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom

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 Joyce's imagination, became Molly Bloom, arguably the most famous female character in twentieth-century literature. It is also the story of Ireland, a social history encapsulated in the vivid recreation of Joyce and his small Irish entourage abroad. Ultimately it is the portrait of a relationship -- of Nora's complicated, committed, and at times shocking relationship with a hardworking, hard drinking genius and with his work.
In NORA: THE REAL LIFE OF MOLLY BLOOM, the award-winning biographer Brenda Maddox has given us a powerful new lens through which to see both James Joyce and the woman who was in turn his inspiration and his salvation.

Author: Brenda Maddox
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/16/2000
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.01w x 1.32d
ISBN13: 9780618057009
ISBN10: 0618057005
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs