Declan Kiberd, a professor of Anglo-Irish literature at the University College Dublin, offers an audacious new take on Joyce's classic novel.Kiberd's booklucid, learned, free of jargon and pretensioncan make for a wonderful companion along the journey through Joyce's wondrous epic.[Kiberd is] one of our liveliest and most iconoclastic intellectuals. . . . Whether or notWhy James Joyce's great modernist masterpiece is in fact a book that can teach ordinary people to live better lives.