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MADDOX,BRENDA: : Nora - The Real Life of Molly Bloom

US.BOSTON,MASS.HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY,1988

ISBN 0395365104.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line A 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.Neat, blue ink familial,gift presentation inscrptn to top of ffe and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain green paper-covered bds with burgundy cloth blind spine/backstrip with bright,crisp, stamped gilt lettering,a yellow headband and clean plain burgundy eps - owner inscrptn excepted.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, [paginated] includes ix-xxpp+3-472pp includes,acknowledgements,contents list/table,illus list/table,author's introduction,Pts I-IV comprising 22 chapters,16pp contemporary auto+biographical b/w photographs in 1 block,between pp204/5,an appendix,notes,a bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,James Joyce prose extrct,and 4pp blanks at the rear. On the Saturday evening of October 8,1904, shortly before nine o'clock,a tall woman with thick,reddish brown hair and a very straight back walked up the gangway of the night boat from Dublin to England.There was a great press of people,illuminated by the light streaming through the portholes,as well-wishers and mourners joined the passengers.Those who were not weeping were joking and enjoying the drink being passed around.There was no one to weep at Nora Barnacle's departure,but she did not care. If her family in Galway had known what she was doing,they would have tried to stop her.At twenty,she was still a minor,she was penniless,and she was running off to Europe with James Joyce. Thus begins the story of Nora,the woman who - transformed by Joyce's imagination - becomes Molly Bloom,the most famous female character in 20thC fiction.She was also the model for Gretta in @The Dead' and Anna Livia Plurabelle in 'Finnegan's Wake'; in fact,most of Joyce's extraordinary insights into women come from Nora. The first full-length biography is full of new information on Nora's early loves,on the Joyce's decision to marry in 1931 and Nora's years in Zurich after Joyce's death in 1941,and on Helen Kastor,the rich New York divorcee whose marriage to Giorgio Joyce changed their lives.There are fascinating insights on the Joyce's notorious erotic love letters.And there is the story of Lucia,the schizophrenic daughter who died in an institution in 1982. Nora was Joyce's "portable Ireland," the one from whom he could always hear the true Irish voice and sense the true Irish thought.And she was his salvation as well. During the years of struggle,she had two children; kept the family together with a tiny income and a spendthrift husband; managed the moving of the household from country to country; learned three European languages; coped with her daughter's insanity; and was the mainstay for a hard- drinking and irresponsible genius.This engrossing biography portrays a marriage from the point of view of the strong and irreverent woman who made it endure. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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