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" Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O'Connor's bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce's wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle (Edna O'Brien).Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from Galway who left school at twelve, is a chambermaid at Finn's Hotel, and has all but given up on a happy ending. But on June 16 Bloomsday her life is changed when she meets James Joyce, a fateful encounter that turns into a lifelong love. Despite his hesitation to marry, Nora follows him in pursuit of a life beyond Ireland, and they surround themselves with a buoyant group of friends that grows to include Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and Sylvia Beach. But as their life unfolds, Nora finds herself in conflict between their intense desire for each other and the constant anxiety of living in poverty throughout Europe. She desperately wants literary success for Jim, believing in his singular gift and knowing that he thrives on being the toast of the town, and it eventually provides her with a security long lacking in her life and his work. So even when Jim writes, drinks, and gambles his way to literary acclaim, Nora provides unflinching support and inspiration, but at a cost to her own happiness and that of their children. With gorgeous and emotionally resonant prose, Nora is a heartfelt portrayal of love, ambition, and the quiet power of an ordinary woman who was, in fact, extraordinary. "
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Biographisches: " Nuala O'Connor was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1970. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she is a novelist and short story writer, and lives in County Galway with her husband and three children. Nuala has won many prizes for her short fiction including the Short Story Prize in the UK and Ireland's Francis MacManus Award. She is editor at flash e-zine Splonk . " Rezension(2): " Toronto Star :O'Connor's vibrant prose . enlivens Nora's ongoing struggle to support the man who is her love, and also a bother to her heart and a sore conundrum to her mind. . An engaging portrait that reveals in lush detail how Barnacle's life must have been." Rezension(3): " Boston Globe :An exhaustive and often wildly engaging fictionalized biography, the full story of the Galway gal who traipsed after James as he wrote, drank, and intermittently worked his way across Europe is a tale of its own. " Rezension(4): " Midwest Book Review :Author Nuala O'Connor deftly blends elements of love, ambition, and extraordinary people with extraordinary talents with the kind of narrative storytelling style that creates great and enduringly memorable fiction." Rezension(5): " Sunday Times (London) :The Nora that leaps of these pages is at once muse, temptress, earth mother and warrior queen all rolled into one glorious package . O'Connor positions her protagonist centre-stage to charm readers with her winning blend of native pragmatism and vernacular wit." Rezension(6): " Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star :O'Connor's mastering is not limited to the first chapter, and she is able to tug emotion from the novel's closing chapters . it is gut-wrenching through Nora's loving eyes and leaves the reader staggered." Rezension(7): " Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay :An exceptional novel by one of the most brilliant contemporary Irish writers, this is a story of love in all its many seasons, from ardent sexuality to companionable tenderness, through strength, challenge, and courage. Nuala O'Connor has brought to vivid life a woman about whom every literature lover has surely wondered and has done so with immense skill and daring." Rezension(8): " Sunday Business Post :Nora followed the man of her dreams all over Europe as a muse, lover and mother to his children. O'Connor, however, makes it clear that she was far more than just an appendage—" Rezension(9): " Publishers Weekly :[A] poignant, comprehensive portrait of Nora Barnacle as a young woman, mother, and literary inspiration for the Molly Bloom character in Ulysses. . Narrated in Nora's robust voice and carried by details saturated in filth O'Connor's admirable accomplishment adds to the abundant Joyceana with a moving examination of an unforgettable family." Rezension(10): " Vogue :Lively portrait . O'Connor has a musical ear for language." Rezension(11): " Historical Novel Society :Nora by Nuala O'Connor is marvelous." Rezension(12): " Irish Times :O'Connor deftly depicts the strength of Nora's attachment to an adoring but exasperatingly unreliable man." Rezension(13): " Edna O'Brien :A lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle." Rezension(14): " New York Times Book Review :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 talented man." Rezension(15): " Books Ireland :O'Connor conjures her heroine from between the lines of Joyce's letters, making Nora speak back to him and to us, not as the shadow or muse of a great man but as a woman reimagined and reintroduced as her own, full person . [Nora] demonstrates the passionate, imaginative writing I have come to associate with Nuala O'Connor." Rezension(16): " Kirkus Reviews :This is a woman's story of craving female friendship, tending children, and supporting a wayward wanderer while always loving—" Rezension(17): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 1, 2020 Nora Barnacle, lifelong partner to James Joyce and model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses, moves center stage in a story of loyal love tested over years of poverty and effort. Young Nora, a bold, freethinking, uneducated girl from a poor Galway background, narrates this biographical saga in evocative Irish tones, offering a more-or-less conventional account of the role of the supportive wife to a genius. The novel opens in Dublin on June 16, 1904--her first date with Jim Joyce, later to be commemorated as Bloomsday, the day during which Ulysses takes place. The attraction between the couple is explicitly sexual, and within months they leave Ireland together for Switzerland, where Joyce has been promised a teaching job. So begins their peripatetic life moving from Zurich to Trieste to Rome, back to Trieste, and eventually to Paris. Unmarried for decades since Joyce won't be bound by any church, the pair struggles with the culture shock of Europe (the food, the weather) and their own poverty. But Nora suffers more: She's lonely, living in the wake of a charismatic, mercurial husband who drinks too much, abandons her often, hates his work, and loses himself in his writing. This is a woman's story of craving female friendship, tending children, and supporting a wayward wanderer while always loving--and being loved by--him. Slowly Joyce begins to win the fight for publication and acknowledgement, but literature is largely the background to this domestic portrait of mutual dependency sometimes overwhelmed by its emphasis on family dramas. O'Connor's Joyce is a man the same as any other, with all a man's frauds and faults, according to Nora. She emerges as his rock, the prose to his poetry. O'Connor's lengthy, indulgent portrait of a marriage forefronts the robust, devoted woman who kept the show on the road. COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(18): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 26, 2020 O’Connor ( Becoming Belle ) expands on her Granta award-winning short story, “Gooseen” in this poignant, comprehensive portrait of Nora Barnacle as a young woman, mother, and literary inspiration for the Molly Bloom character in Ulysses . Nora and James Joyce’s inseparable attachment begins in Dublin on June 16, 1904 (forever remembered as Bloomsday for the setting of Joyce’s masterpiece) and stretches to 1951. Narrated in Nora’s robust voice and carried by details saturated in filth, such as a walk along the Liffey river that “smells like a pisspot spilling its muck into the sea,” the narrative traces Nora and Joyce’s nomadic life from Ireland to Trieste, Zurich, London, Rome, and Paris, and details their constant money worries, health concerns, struggles with two difficult children, and emotional despair. Despite their personal and professional achievements, and a circle of friends that includes Sylvia Beach, the Guggenheim sisters, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, and other literati, the couple suffers loneliness and “mutual melancholy.” An inscription on a bracelet that Joyce gives Nora underscores their commitment to one another: “love is unhappy when love is away.” O’Connor’s admirable accomplishment adds to the abundant Joyceana with a moving examination of an unforgettable family."
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