Here They Come
Yannick Murphy
(Author)
Description
Here They Come is the lyrical, startling and poignant third novel from Yannick Murphy, a National Endowment for the Arts award winner and one of the freshest voices in American fiction today. Splitting time between a ramshackle apartment and a lonely hot dog vendor, the observant thirteen-year-old who stands steadily at the center of Here They Come gives lyrical voice to an unforgettable instant --1970s New York, stifling, violent and full of life. Balanced between her enigmatic siblings, detached parents, and a quiet sense of the surreal, she recounts a year of startling moments with dark humor and deadpan resilience.Product Details
Price
$13.00
$12.09
Publisher
Grove Press
Publish Date
May 10, 2007
Pages
256
Dimensions
5.06 X 7.22 X 0.67 inches | 0.51 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802143198
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About the Author
Yannick Murphy is the author of The Call; Signed, Mata Hari; Here They Come; and The Sea of Trees, as well as two story collections and several children's books. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Chesterfield Screenwriting Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award. Her work has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in Vermont with her husband and children.
Reviews
"Yannick Murphy is a uniquely talented writer who manages to turn everything on its head and make dark, funny, shocking, and beautiful prose out of the detritus of growing up poor, fatherless, and cockeyed. She is fearless." -- Lily Tuck
"This is a hell of a book. You might not be able to finish Here They Come in one sitting, but it will haunt you till you do. What detail! What characters! I can imagine both Jane Austen and Raymond Carver poring over this masterly novel." -- Frank McCourt
"Yannick Murphy's long-awaited Here They Come is a unique combination of rare linguistic lyricism with brutal and brilliant prose. It is an unrelenting portrait of family, terrifying for its honesty, its willingness to be ugly and elegant. Haunting." -- A. M. Homes
"Murphy flawlessly captures a child's-eye view of a battered society and a battered family. . . . Most impressive of all is Ýher¨ remarkable use of language, the expressive way she puts together ordinary words and images to create surprisingly lovely and moving metaphors." -- Wendy Smith
"This is a hell of a book. You might not be able to finish Here They Come in one sitting, but it will haunt you till you do. What detail! What characters! I can imagine both Jane Austen and Raymond Carver poring over this masterly novel." -- Frank McCourt
"Yannick Murphy's long-awaited Here They Come is a unique combination of rare linguistic lyricism with brutal and brilliant prose. It is an unrelenting portrait of family, terrifying for its honesty, its willingness to be ugly and elegant. Haunting." -- A. M. Homes
"Murphy flawlessly captures a child's-eye view of a battered society and a battered family. . . . Most impressive of all is Ýher¨ remarkable use of language, the expressive way she puts together ordinary words and images to create surprisingly lovely and moving metaphors." -- Wendy Smith
