“Joyce’s one play finally gets the critical attention it deserves.”—Sam Slote, coeditor of Renascent Joyce
“Carefully selected discussions illuminate both Joyce’s Exiles and Joyce’s exile—and, as well, the sense of exile throughout Joyce’s work.”—Morris Beja, coeditor of Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses
“A major contribution to Joyce studies: a fine introduction, a critical text of Exiles that faithfully restores Joyce’s stylistic practices, and a collection of incisive critical essays from the era of Kenner and Tindall to the present.”—Stephen Watt, author of “Something Dreadful and Grand”: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Imagination
“For virtually everyone in any phase of the infinite enterprise that is coming to grips with the Joycean corpus, this volume will be a godsend.”—Margot Backus, author of Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars
“Fargnoli and Gillespie have gifted us what should become the standard text of Exiles. For the first time, the play is available to us as Joyce wanted it to appear.”—Irish Studies Review
“A fitting tribute to the 100th anniversary of Exiles.”—English Literature in Transition
“Provide[s] us . . . with a remarkably established text as well as with the reprinting of some outstanding, thought-provoking essays.”—James Joyce Quarterly
“This companion represents an excellent place for new readers to begin and for lapsed Joyceans to renew their acquaintance with this provocative play.”—James Joyce Literary Supplement
