num_pages: 496
description: Nora was twenty years old and penniless when she eloped from Ireland with Joyce, a man of brilliant promise but few accomplishments whom she'd known but three months. She remained with him until his death thirty-seven years later, bearing him two children, governing a succession of unruly households in Trieste, Paris, and Zurich, holding him and the family together through the force of her own formidable pluck. Most importantly for Joyce's work, Nora served as his "portable Ireland," his living link to the homeland he used as the basis for his masterpieces.
language: English
title: Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
titlecomplete: Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce
genres: Biography, Literary Criticism, Ireland, History, Irish Literature, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 374
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Ballantine Books