(036605) Maddox, Brenda. Nora: The Real Life Of Molly Bloom. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 472 pages. Very Good+ in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Small rubber-stamped ' NOT FOR RESALE' on top edges and on front free endpaper. Nora Barnacle (1884-1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignment on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel Ulysses, a book that she did not, however, enjoy. Their sexually explicit letters have aroused much curiosity, especially as Joyce normally disapproved of coarse language ISBN: 0395365104 (Joyce, Nora Barnacl, Joyce, James, Irish Novelists, Authors' Spouses)
