Samuel Beckett: MURPHY [2009] paperback Condition:Good It introduces Kate Reed Petty

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

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Samuel Beckett: MURPHY [2009] paperback Condition:Good It introduces Kate Reed PettyEdited 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