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Nora

Brenda Maddox

1988384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1988
first published
  • 1988Houghton Mifflin · 472 pages · ENGISBN 9780395365106
  • 1989Minerva Press · 592 pages · ENGISBN 9780749390143
  • 1995Books on Tape, Inc.ISBN 9780736632287
  • 1988Books On Tape · ENGISBN 9785557117234
  • 2000Mariner Books · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9780618057009
  • 1988David & Charles · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9780241123850
  • 1989Ballantine Books · ENGISBN 9780449904107

"The first full-length biography of Nora, the chambermaid who ran off with the artist, is full of new information on Nora's early life and loves, on the Joyces' decision to marry in 1931 and Nora's years in Zurich after Joyce's death in 1941, and on Helen Kastor, the wealthy New York divorcee whose marriage to their son, Giorgio Joyce, changed their lives. There are fascinating chapters on how the Joyces' notorious erotic letters of 1909 reached the public eye and on the later life of Lucia, the Joyces' schizophrenic daughter, who died in St. Andrew's Hospital in 1982. This then is the home life of the Joyces told from the point of view of the irreverent, immeasurably strong woman from Galway who held it together"--Book jacket.

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