by Brenda Maddox · Hamish Hamilton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241123850
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«Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce» is the biography of Nora Barnacle Joyce by Brenda Maddox, published by Hamish Hamilton in hardcover (589 pages, in English).
Biography of Nora Barnacle Joyce, the woman from Galway who left Ireland with James Joyce and became his companion and muse. The book reconstructs Nora's youth, the Joyces' domestic life, the 1931 wedding, Nora's years in Zurich after James Joyce's death, and the story of Lucia, the couple's daughter.
Biography published in 1988; first complete biography of Nora Joyce, with index and bibliography. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and finalist for the National Book Award.
A work of interest to scholars and readers of James Joyce, especially for contextualizing Ulysses through the author's relationship with Nora.
Brenda, Lady Maddox was an American writer and biographer, who spent most of her adult life living and working in the UK, from 1959 until her death. She is best known for her biographies, including of Nora Barnacle, the wife of James Joyce, and for her semi-autobiographical book, The Half-Parent: Living with Other People's Children.
