{"product_id":"exiles-9780198800064","title":"Exiles","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'\u003c\/strong\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198800064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"James Joyce","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38471399506101,"sku":"9780198800064","price":10.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_890496fd-4af5-4c6a-afe7-0e37f2ab30a9.jpg?v=1612929707","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/exiles-9780198800064","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}