Paul Murray, Author . Random $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6116-7
If Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray's insouciant romp, shortlisted for the Whitbread. For three years, ever since his...
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Paul Murray, Faber and Faber, $28 (672p) ISBN 978-0-86547-943-2; $30 paper ISBN 978-0-86547-948-7
While there is an undeniable similarity between this long novel and another popular series featuring an adolescent protagonist who, along with his friends, gets into all kinds of mischief at a haunted boarding school, the two works couldn't be more...
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Paul Murray, Author, Pauli Murray, Author, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Introduction by HarperCollins Publishers $24.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-06-015704-3
The notable career of the late Murrayshe died in 1985descendant of a North Carolina slave and a slave owner, who, as lawyer, teacher, poet, feminist and, lastly, Episcopalian priest, worked for social justice, unfolds in this autobiography. A...
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Paul Murray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-86547-755-1
Murray’s follow-up to Skippy Dies is a protracted jab at the world of banking, a charming send-up of the financial crisis that is hilariously absent of hope. Claude Martingale is a French émigré living in Dublin and working for the Investment Bank...
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Paul Murray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (656p) ISBN 978-0-374-60030-3
Secret pasts, forbidden desires, and shattered illusions figure into this ambitious family drama from Murray (Skippy Dies). Dickie Barnes, once a successful car salesman outside Dublin, forsakes the world to build an apocalyptic bunker in the woods.
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