A rich plum pudding of a novel crammed with characters from the Joyce biographies and the novels, allusions and bits of text. Continue reading
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A Full-Bodied and Sympathetic Nora
During the writing of Nora, O’Connor says she developed a deeper empathy for James Joyce, perhaps because she now understands his writerly life. It is through her protagonist’s perverse love for Joyce that a reader sees the man’s redeeming features. Continue reading
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A Song Cycle for Nora Barnacle
Nora Barnacle was known to be a plain speaking woman, practical, stoical, yet with as much mettle in her as there was in Joyce. Continue reading