Nora: The Real Life of Molly BloomIn 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. |
Contents
Exit from Finns | 3 |
The ManKiller | 7 |
The Summer of 1904 | 23 |
Berth | 47 |
Signora Joyce | 49 |
Madanonna and Child | 74 |
Away Alone | 89 |
A House Joyces | 109 |
Square Robiac | 227 |
Legitimate Interests | 255 |
Anna Livia | 281 |
Madness in Progress I | 283 |
Madness in Progress II | 305 |
Madness in Progress III | 319 |
Flight into Zurich | 336 |
Staying On | 346 |
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