Seph Murtagh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Ulysses
Hugh Kenner
My friend (and ring-bearer at my wedding), Professor Kevin Murphy, gave a triumphant talk on Joyce’s Ulysses tonight at @IthacaCollege. Hugh Kenner and parallax were mentioned, which made me very happy. https://t.co/cnTlhyaH58
Paperback, 1987
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s 10-year run from Jacob’s Room to The Waves has to be one of the greatest literary streaks of all time. Those two books plus Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One’s Own, The Common Reader 1 & 2. 🔥🔥🔥
Paperback, 1989
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
The Sellout by Paul Beatty. Not only maybe the funniest novel I’ve ever read, but filled with passages of transcendent writing like this one. “If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That’s Always Passed Out on the Couch.” https://t.co/CHJnE9wPrm
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The English Understand Wool
Helen DeWitt
From The English Understand Wool by Helen Dewitt. 17-year-old me would have appreciated this passage. 😊 https://t.co/XAh15lyCbg
Hardcover, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s 2nd novel. I’m enjoying it, but it’s surprisingly conventional compared to her later novels, with a voice that reminds me of one of George Eliot’s narrators. Amazing that Mrs. Dalloway was only a few years away from this. https://t.co/ga27IkIqpi
Hardcover, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book