Mary Morrissy: Penelope Unbound
- €12
- Bantry House – Loggia
- 19/07/2024 - 10:00 am
In Penelope Unbound, Mary Morrissy weaves a spellbinding speculative history. By unhooking Norah Barnacle from her famous husband James Joyce, Mary gives her a compelling new voice, with heartbreak and humanity all her own. Sensual, inventive and uproariously funny, Penelope Unbound reimagines a Joycean heroine for the 21st century.
Mary will be in conversation with Sue Leonard.
On their arrival in Trieste in 1904, James Joyce left Norah Barnacle outside a railway station while he went to scare up money. He got embroiled in a fight with a couple of sailors and was locked up for his troubles. A penniless Norah was left alone for almost an entire day and night sitting on their suitcases at the station in a city where she knew no one and where she didn’t speak the language. In real life, Norah waited for him. This novel asks – what if she hadn’t?
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Mary Morrissy
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