A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: A Debut Collection of Evocative and Lyrical Stories Set in Africa and Asia - Softcover

Murray, John

 
9780060509293: A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: A Debut Collection of Evocative and Lyrical Stories Set in Africa and Asia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060509295 ISBN 13: 9780060509293
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so given that this is the author’s first book. Murray is adept at holding together a complex narrative and creating characters who reach out emotionally to the reader upon first meeting.

Global in scope, classical in form, evocative of place, and deeply emotional, this collection marks the beginning of what promises to be an illustrious career.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Murray trained as a doctor and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow. "The Hill Station" won the Prairie Lights Short Fiction Award, and the title story was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the Best New American Voices 2002 fiction anthology. John Murray currently lives in Iowa.

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These vivid and compelling tales, many set in Africa and Asia, are about immigrants and others facing change and dislocation. The science is never pedantic; indeed the language of biology and natural history is used to great lyrical effect. The stories are accomplished and seasoned, remarkably so given that this is the author’s first book. Murray is adept at holding together a complex narrative and creating characters who reach out emotionally to the reader upon first meeting.

Global in scope, classical in form, evocative of place, and deeply emotional, this collection marks the beginning of what promises to be an illustrious career.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060509295
ISBN 13 
9780060509293
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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