{"product_id":"9781474616812","title":"James and Nora","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): O'Brien, Edna, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 11\/06\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 80 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Weidenfeld \u0026amp; Nicolson,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Orion Publishing Co,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: literary\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781474616812\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a dejected letter from Joyce they met on June 16th, a date which came to be immortalized in literature as Bloomsday. Edna O'Brien paints a miniature portrait of an artist, idealist, insurgent and filled with a secret loneliness. In Nora, he was to find accomplice, collaborator and muse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all their sexual escalations, Joyce considered their relationship 'a kind of sacrament'. Their life was one of wandering, emotional upheaval and poverty. It was also one that was binding and mysterious, and defied all the mores of intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prose brimming with life and energy, Edna O'Brien resurrects a relationship of magnificent intensity on the page, and in doing so shows herself to be touched by the genius of the writer she loves above all others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35021953728665,"sku":"9781474616812","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781474616812.jpg?v=1602539552","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781474616812","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}