num_pages: 512
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
titlecomplete: Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom
genres: History, Womens, Irish Literature, Biography Memoir, Literary Criticism, Ireland, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 374
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Mariner Books