The Murphy Stories

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THE MURPHY STORIES
Mark Costello
In this fourth printing The Murphy Stories becomes for the first time a volume in the ongoing series Illinois Short Fiction, for which it served as a prototype. Highly acclaimed upon its original publication in 1973, it was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates in the Washington Post Book World: "This is Mark Costello's first book and it is beautifully executed: a novel in the form of a group of stories, closely and dramatically related. Murphy is a Midwestern cousin of Donleavy's Ginger Man, but much more human and troubled. It is a remarkable achievement, the presentation of a complex, suffering, self-conscious and very lyric personality as he endures his own being."
R. V. Cassill in the New York Times Book Review: "Versatile and romping prose. . . . can be read from cover to cover with quickening joy and terror."
Stephen Minot in North American Review: "Mark Costello loves words. it is fascinating to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE MURPHY STORIES
Mark Costello
In this fourth printing The Murphy Stories becomes for the first time a volume in the ongoing series Illinois Short Fiction, for which it served as a prototype. Highly acclaimed upon its original publication in 1973, it was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction.
Joyce Carol Oates in the Washington Post Book World: "This is Mark Costello's first book and it is beautifully executed: a novel in the form of a group of stories, closely and dramatically related. Murphy is a Midwestern cousin of Donleavy's Ginger Man, but much more human and troubled. It is a remarkable achievement, the presentation of a complex, suffering, self-conscious and very lyric personality as he endures his own being."
R. V. Cassill in the New York Times Book Review: "Versatile and romping prose. . . . can be read from cover to cover with quickening joy and terror."
Stephen Minot in North American Review: "Mark Costello loves words. it is fascinating to watch him indulge his appetite. What comes through on every page is vitality. His fresh use of language is a pleasure to experience." George Garrett: " an excellent gathering of stories — strong, skillfully executed, well made, yet highly original. . . . Costello is a first-rate talent."
MARK COSTELLO is a native of Decatur, Illinois, and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Iowa.
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