false 6509046 2 Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse a book for the elite, argues Declan Kiberd. It is a book for the common people, and offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world. Leopold Bloom, the half-Jewish Irishman who is the book's hero, teaches the young Stephen Dedalus (modelled on Joyce himself) how he can grow and mature as an artist and an adult human being. Bloom has learned to live with contradictions, with anxiety and sexual jealousy, and with the rudeness and racism of the people he encounters in the city streets, and in his apparently banal way sees deeper than any of them. He embodies an intensely ordinary kind of wisdom, Kiberd argues, and in this way offers us a model for living well, in the tradition of Homer, Dante and the Bible (on all of which Joyce drew in the writing of his book). 6700737 4 6 2009 Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living total:6|5:2|4:3|3:0|2:1|1:0| 6 24 35 2 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 4 0 false Wed Jun 24 13:07:53 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 09:30:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 5 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 10:29:02 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 10:33:27 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Tue Dec 01 10:53:22 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 01 10:53:22 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Mon Nov 30 13:22:57 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 13:22:57 -0800 2009 6586333 0393070999 9780393070996 0 0 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586333-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Sun Nov 22 13:02:09 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 13:02:09 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Sun Nov 22 09:45:35 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 09:45:35 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Mon Nov 16 10:36:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 10:36:07 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 2 0 false Tue Nov 17 12:15:10 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 19:33:42 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 12:15:10 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 4 0 false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:28:44 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 28 12:00:04 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Mon Nov 02 11:46:46 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:46:52 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Fri Oct 23 10:19:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 10:19:48 -0700 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Wed Oct 21 14:32:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:32:14 -0700 2009 6586333 0393070999 9780393070996 0 0 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586333-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Tue Oct 20 09:23:37 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 19:47:21 -0800 2009 6586333 0393070999 9780393070996 0 0 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586333-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Sun Oct 18 08:29:01 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 08:29:11 -0700 2009 6586333 0393070999 9780393070996 0 0 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586333-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Sat Oct 17 18:34:37 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 18:34:37 -0700 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 4 0 false Mon Nov 16 13:38:58 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 15 07:10:09 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 07:10:09 -0700 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Fri Oct 09 15:05:53 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 15:05:58 -0700 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Sun Oct 04 09:00:33 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 09:00:33 -0700 2009 6586333 0393070999 9780393070996 0 0 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586333-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Fri Oct 02 01:05:27 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 03:02:31 -0800 2009 6509046 0571242545 9780571242542 6 2 4.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6509046-ulysses-and-us 0 0 false Wed Sep 30 13:17:10 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 13:17:10 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6509046