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."
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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."
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Urbana 1991 first edition. University of Illinois. Hardcover small octavo. ISBN 0252017951. Near Fine (light bit of marker pen from pricing inside front cover in Near Fine dj, slightest amount of rubbing on cover.
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Like New. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Inscribed to a named person with a note and then signed by author on title page in black ink and dated 1.29.96, 1st printing, very well kept copy looks new, tight clean unmarked with bright white pages, dust jacket likewise clean & undamaged, boards likewise, absolutely NO age toning, Fine/Fine.