Middle Murphy Contributor(s): Costello, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252063198 ISBN-13: 9780252063190 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $17.82 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: The stories of Mark Costello.. are powerful, wrenching tales of life in a dislocated somewhere between the solidly down-and-out and the nervously middle class. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Sunsinger Books Illinois Short |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.38" W x 7.97" (0.41 lbs) 152 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: These stories mark the return of Mark Costello's now-legendary creation Michael Murphy, the character who first appeared in the acclaimed collection The Murphy Stories. Joyce Carol Oates wrote in the Washington Post Book World, "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." |