{"product_id":"exiles-paperback-1","title":"Exiles - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But this aspiration ends up taking a back seat to the erotic crisis that is unleashed by the couple's return to the place where they first met, and their encounters with two old flames and friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this play, Joyce revisits his own agonizing feelings of jealousy that were precipitated by similar trips home to Dublin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the introduction and notes, Keri Walsh provides a comprehensive look issues of gender, sexuality, and performance as well as considering the nationalist and sectarian contexts of Dublin in 1912, the year of the play's setting.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324162900191,"sku":"9780198800064","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Y1kQ0d43Lw9780198800064.webp?v=1788426202","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/exiles-paperback-1","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}