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Exiles (Nick Hern Books)
James Joyce
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Description for Exiles (Nick Hern Books)
Paperback. It's the summer of 1912. Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard, a successful writer, and Bertha, his wife, have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together? Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
James Joyce's startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.
Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard and Bertha have to confront two other people who love them, and ask themselves questions about guilt and responsibility. Will infidelity hold them together?
Exiles is based in part on Joyce's own relationship with Nora Barnacle. His only play, it was written in 1914 during his own self-imposed exile from Ireland, between A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854599520
SKU
V9781854599520
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99-50
About James Joyce
James Joyce (1882-1941) is the author of Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Exiles (1918), Ulysses (published in Paris 1922), Finnegans Wake (1939) and many poems. He met Nora in Dublin in 1904 and the two of them lived in Pula and then Trieste until 1915, when the War forced them to move to ... Read more
Reviews for Exiles (Nick Hern Books)
'A neglected landmark of modern theatre that explores the byzantine complexities of marriage with the honesty of genius'
Guardian
'Never for a second does it lose its grip'
Independent
'Astonishing... a play that asks sharp, searching questions about the difficulty of emotional honesty and, above all, the sheer complexity of our sexual feelings'
The Times ... Read more
Guardian
'Never for a second does it lose its grip'
Independent
'Astonishing... a play that asks sharp, searching questions about the difficulty of emotional honesty and, above all, the sheer complexity of our sexual feelings'
The Times ... Read more