Mrs Murphy
05Aug07
Outstanding vintage jacket design, spotted by type designer Mark Simonson, (who keeps a pretty spiffy notebook).
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My bkkeeping records- The Size of Thoughts August 24, 2008
- The Size of Thoughts August 21, 2008
- The Selected Poetry (Picador Classics) August 7, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 21, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 16, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 14, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 14, 2008
- Maps and Legends July 14, 2008
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Bestselling Backlist) July 12, 2008
- Maps and Legends July 10, 2008
- Recent Accessions
- Hans and Heinz Kirch ; with, Immensee ; and, Journey to a Hallig by Theodor Storm
- The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest (Wesleyan Poetry) by Barbara Guest
- Uncle (New York Review Children's Collection) by J.P. Martin
- Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
- The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
- Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
- The alphabet game : a bpNichol reader by B. P. Nichol
- Farewell Victoria by T. H. White
- Further reading
- Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England - Google Books
- History of Penguin archive - Telegraph
- NU Press: Constraining Chance - Georges Perec and the Oulipo, by Alison James
- The Last Avant-Garde by David Lehman - Trade Paperback - Random House
- Theodor Storm: Introduction
- Untitled Books
- Nietzsche : Twilight of the Idols
- Danteworlds
- Red Room | Where the Writers Are
- Notes Toward an Annotated Edition of 2666
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Hello,
I was just inquiring about the contents of The Story of Mrs. Murphy. I was at a local hospital with my sister when I noticed a small table of books. I went over, fingered through them and found a copy of The Story of Mrs. Murphy (along with a copy of O.E. Rolvaag’s Giants of the Earth). The books turned out to be free of charge, which was quite nice. I’m just wondering if the book is a good read or not.
-PM
p.s. Also, the cover on my copy looks quite different from that one. Is that bad?
Hi there. It looks like your copy is missing its dust jacket – which is only bad if you’re a) a book geek, or b) a book-design geek (I’m probably both!)
As to whether the book’s any good or not, I’m afraid I can’t enlighten you. All I’ve seen of it is the photograph above. You might ask Mr. Simonson, though I suspect he hasn’t read it either…