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NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce
Nuala O'connor
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Description for NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce
Paperback.
*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022* *Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021* When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets young James Joyce on a summer’s day in Dublin, she is instantly attracted to him, natural and daring in his company. But she cannot yet imagine the extraordinary life they will share together. All Nora knows is she likes her Jim enough to leave behind family and home, in search of a bigger, more exciting life. As their family grows, they ricochet from European city to city, making fast friends amongst the greatest artists and writers of their age as well as ... Read more
*One Dublin One Book choice for 2022* *Shortlisted for an Irish Book Award 2021* When Nora Barnacle, a twenty-year-old from Galway working as a maid at Finn’s Hotel, meets young James Joyce on a summer’s day in Dublin, she is instantly attracted to him, natural and daring in his company. But she cannot yet imagine the extraordinary life they will share together. All Nora knows is she likes her Jim enough to leave behind family and home, in search of a bigger, more exciting life. As their family grows, they ricochet from European city to city, making fast friends amongst the greatest artists and writers of their age as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, Ireland
ISBN
9781848408500
SKU
V9781848408500
Shipping Time
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About Nuala O'connor
Nuala O’Connor is a novelist, short story writer and poet, and lives in Co. Galway with her family. She is the author of four previous novels, including Becoming Belle (2018) and Miss Emily (2015), a reimagining of the life of Emily Dickinson, and six short story collections, her most recent being Joyride to Jupiter (2017). She has won many prizes ... Read more
Reviews for NORA: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce
O'Connor succeeds in rendering Nora and Jim as three-dimensional humans with the same frailties and foibles as the rest of us.
John Walshe
Sunday Business Post
'This fictional Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance and her inability to stop loving a deeply erratic, wildly manipulative yet enormously ... Read more
John Walshe
Sunday Business Post
'This fictional Nora is entirely convincing in her raw sensuality, her stubborn determination, her powerful sense of grievance and her inability to stop loving a deeply erratic, wildly manipulative yet enormously ... Read more