The Kick

A Life Among Writers

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book The Kick by Richard Murphy, The Lilliput Press
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Author: Richard Murphy ISBN: 9781843513438
Publisher: The Lilliput Press Publication: January 1, 2003
Imprint: The Lilliput Press Language: English
Author: Richard Murphy
ISBN: 9781843513438
Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Publication: January 1, 2003
Imprint: The Lilliput Press
Language: English

Drawing on five decades of private notebooks, Richard Murphy has created a unique memoir of his life and times. Murphy writes about delicate personal issues as he chronicles the making and unmasking of a writer. He includes amusing and moving accounts of his meetings and friendships, with many prominent writers and actors from the literary milieux of London, Dublin and New York, including C. S. Lewis, Harold Nicholson, J.R. Ackerley, Patrick Kavanagh, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Robert Shaw, Peter O'Toole, John McGahern, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

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Drawing on five decades of private notebooks, Richard Murphy has created a unique memoir of his life and times. Murphy writes about delicate personal issues as he chronicles the making and unmasking of a writer. He includes amusing and moving accounts of his meetings and friendships, with many prominent writers and actors from the literary milieux of London, Dublin and New York, including C. S. Lewis, Harold Nicholson, J.R. Ackerley, Patrick Kavanagh, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Robert Shaw, Peter O'Toole, John McGahern, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

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