Nora: the Real Life of Molly Bloom
by Maddox, Brenda
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD in GOOD jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395365104
- ISBN 13
- 9780395365106
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Roeland Park, Kansas, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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- Seller
- BookQuest (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 70565
- Title
- Nora: the Real Life of Molly Bloom
- Author
- Maddox, Brenda
- Format/Binding
- HARDBOUND
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD in GOOD jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1ST BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395365104
- ISBN 13
- 9780395365106
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Authors' spouses / Biography / Irish Novelists / Marriage / Écrivains irlandais / Femmes mariées / Biographies / Ehe / Mariage / Biographie / Irish Authors / Wives / Bloom, molly (fictitious character) / New York Times reviewed / Women, ireland / Joyce,
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