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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Nora Barnacle is a plucky realist who falls in love with an eccentric artist (James Joyce). Nora makes the best of a lifetime of moving from here to there, constant changes in friendship, abject poverty, and the mercurialness of the man she loves. James Joyce is a mess of a man who was blessed to find this amazing woman to prop him up throughout his life.
Well written and well researched, Nuala O'Connor lays bare the relationship between these two near-total opposites. The book is part history and part travelogue as it carries throughout the lifetime of Nora which encompasses both world wars.
Well written and well researched, Nuala O'Connor lays bare the relationship between these two near-total opposites. The book is part history and part travelogue as it carries throughout the lifetime of Nora which encompasses both world wars.
This fictional account of the relationship of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce was recently selected One Dublin One Book 2022. I read this for a short course on the wives of WB Yeats and James Joyce. I agree with class participants who feel there is not enough about Joyce's writing process and work. There is a lot of negative stuff about his neglect of his family, and wasting their scarce resources on drink. And there is a lot of sex between the two. We get a good sense of this part of their relationship but not enough about other aspects of their lives.
I don't know the motivation of the selection of this book for the One Dublin One Book. It could be that it is hoped this account may make Dubliners more receptive to Joyce who is not highly revered in the city of his birth. It is a decent story which my 3 stars represent. Okay but not one I consider a "must read". I listened to the audiobook which I recommend to those who would like to read this book.
I don't know the motivation of the selection of this book for the One Dublin One Book. It could be that it is hoped this account may make Dubliners more receptive to Joyce who is not highly revered in the city of his birth. It is a decent story which my 3 stars represent. Okay but not one I consider a "must read". I listened to the audiobook which I recommend to those who would like to read this book.
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes