Nora Porteus in Podcasts
personNora Porteus is a fictional character in Jessica Anderson's novel 'Tirralira by the River', returning to her childhood home in Brisbane.
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And it kind of sneaks up on you in the same way that it snuck up on Nora.
I took away from it, I guess, my understanding of Nora as an old woman.
Nora sort of stands at the brink of things.
There's a much easier, neater version of this novel where Nora goes to London and
reviews of the book when it came out and this is the part that people absolutely love this portrayal of Sydney in this time even though it was through this time of the depression it was this time of a flowering of bohemia and artists and modernism in Sydney and you get a sense of that you can smell it in the air and you can feel that excitement building up in Nora but she doesn't quite know what to do with it but she does get a sense that she wants she wants a piece of this
And obviously there's the portrayal of her horrendous marriage to Colin, but it's such a captivating section of the book because we can feel the excitement of Nora getting
There is even a hint in the parting message and then one communication down the track that maybe Nora's view of it wasn't entirely accurate and maybe she was able to have made a difference and she simply didn't.
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