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Synopsis
Beckett's tragicomic first novel (1938) is about a young man trying to earn enough money to get married and support a wife. In the process, he is also searching for himself.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."
Industry Reviews
"Beyond Dickens and Joyce, there is perhaps no English writer of the past hundred years who has equalled Beckett's early prose for vigor and intelligence; the language of 'Murphy', for instance, is so packed that the novel has the density of a short lyric poem."
essay, "From Cakes to Stones" - Paul Auster (01/01/1975)
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