![]() ![]() ![]() But these days the taxonomy of the famous has been expanding ever downward (we have a Z-list now), and Norah’s formulation collapses under scrutiny. In the face of celebrity’s special incandescence, perhaps there is no need for an origin story of mundanities like talent and hard work. “Whatever a star has, they had it all along.” “A star is born not made,” she aphorizes. This ascendance, Norah insists, was instantaneous. Her four-decade-long career, which began in the nineteen-forties, brought her to Broadway, to Hollywood, to avant-garde productions of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett. Katherine O’Dell, who died at the age of fifty-eight, the same age her daughter is now, was a grande dame of the Irish theatre. ![]() Norton), Anne Enright’s captivating seventh novel, the narrator, Norah, advances a theory about her mother’s rise to fame. ![]()
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