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Publish Date:
February 2008
ISBN: 0-9793123-1-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793123-1-1
Price: $13.95
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After twenty years, In a Bear's Eye marks Yannick Murphy's
return, in collection form, to the short story. The title
story of this, her second story collection, was recently included
in the 2007 O.Henry Prize Stories anthology.
Yannick Murphy has also published Stories in Another Language
(Knopf, 1987), the NY Times Notable novel, The Sea of Trees
(Houghton-Mifflin, 1997), and the novel, Here They Come
(McSweeney’s, 2006), not to mention the children’s
book, Ahwoooooooo!. She will also see her novel, Signed,
Mata Hari (Little, Brown, 2007) added to this list in November.
"Yannick Murphy can do in three pages what takes most writers
ten or twenty. Her sentences, many of them pure poetry, pull
you in with their effortless beauty, making you laugh one minute,
then crushing your heart in the next. You can't stop reading.
You can't wait to find out who you'll meet next. You will not
forget this poignant, richly textured, and stunning collection.
And you have never seen anything like it."
—Rebecca Barry, author of Later at the Bar
"Yannick Murphy is a true original. Her gorgeous, poetic sentences
are entirely her own. The marvelous stories in In a Bear's
Eye catch you by surprise, with a consistent and steady
pace that pack a wallop at the same time."
—Elizabeth Crane, author of You Must be This Happy to Enter
"Stories like beautiful black diamonds. Someone has cut you
while you were dreaming, slipped them into your muscles, your
mind. You may never know just how you've been changed."
—Brad
Watson, author of The Heaven of Mercury
Yannick Murphy is the author of Stories in Another Language,
The Sea of Trees , Here They Come, Signed, Mata Hari,
and
Ahwoooooooo!, a book for children. The recipient of
a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the
Arts Fellowship, and a MacDowell Artists’ Colony fellowship,
she lives with her husband and three children in Vermont.
