Summary
James and Nora: A Bloomsday Beginning
It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street, and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was twenty-two, and she, Nora Barnacle, was twenty and employed as a chambermaid in Finn’s Hotel. They agreed to meet on June 14th outside No. 1 Merrion Square, the home of Sir William Wilde, but Nora did not turn up. After a dejected letter from Joyce, they met on June 16th, a date which came to be immort…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474616812 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147461681X |
| Author: | Edna O'Brien |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 69g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 110mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Edna O'Brien
Since her debut novel THE COUNTRY GIRLS, Edna O’Brien has written over twenty works of fiction along with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the recipient of many awards including the Irish Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Art’s Gold Medal, the Ulysses Medal and the Pen Nabokov Award. She also received the David Cohen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Born and raised in the west of Ireland she lived in London for many years until her death in 2024.
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