Samuel Beckett: MURPHY [2009] paperback Condition:Good until his peaceful world's turned

until his peaceful world's turned upside down by a well-intentioned but wild Cajun tearaway and the crooked (and heavily armed) law officer who wants him dead

Anne forms an immediate attachment to Jane

Kitson had spent decades in Britain's colonies refining old

Francis Carlyle is a theatre manager

It introduces Kate Reed Petty as a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction

Samuel Beckett: MURPHY [2009] paperback Condition:Good until his peaceful world's turnedEdited by J. C. C. Mays Murphy, Samuel Beckett's first novel, was published in 1938. Its work shy eponymous hero, adrift in London, realises that desire can never be satisfied and withdraws from life, in search of stupor. Murphy's lovestruck fiancee Celia tries with tragic pathos to draw him back, but her attempts are doomed to failure. Murphy's friends and familiars are simulacra of Murphy, fragmented and incomplete. But Beckett's achievement lies in