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."
- ISBN10 0252017951
- ISBN13 9780252017957
- Publish Date 1 September 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English