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Revolving around the Pacific campaigns of World War II, this collection of short stories captures the events, personalities, and harsh realities of war in "Order of Precedence," "Folly," and "Colossus," in whch an elderly American veteran recalls the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the 1941 death march. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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"The Caprices" grapples with regrettably marginalized but extraordinarily significant events of World WarII...[Murray} fuse[s] together the ordinary and incomprehensible.
Sania Murray's stories about colonialism and war glitter with juxtapositions.
War is an unusual subject for a young female writer; with each piece, Murray proves to be increasingly exceptional.
Murray has marshalled searing prose to construct tales of faith (more often than not unwarranted), courage and savagery.
The two notions of war as another planet and of cognitive displacement are endered with chance timing and shocking force...
Murray crafts her pieces as series of snapshots...that alternately zoom to details and step back for panoramic historical sweeps.
[Murray] turns the bombed-out and broken setting of World War II into a theater for humankind, where weakness and grace are writ large.
About the Author:
Sania Murray's stories about colonialism and war glitter with juxtapositions.
War is an unusual subject for a young female writer; with each piece, Murray proves to be increasingly exceptional.
Murray has marshalled searing prose to construct tales of faith (more often than not unwarranted), courage and savagery.
The two notions of war as another planet and of cognitive displacement are endered with chance timing and shocking force...
Murray crafts her pieces as series of snapshots...that alternately zoom to details and step back for panoramic historical sweeps.
[Murray] turns the bombed-out and broken setting of World War II into a theater for humankind, where weakness and grace are writ large.
Sabina Murray grew up in Australia and the Phillippines. A former Michener Fellow at the University of Texas and Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University, she is the author of the novel Slow Burn. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, New England Review, and other magazines. She has also written a screenplay titled Beautiful Country, commissioned by Terence Malick and starring Nick Nolte. Murray is the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin (Trade)
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 061809525X
- ISBN 13 9780618095254
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages210
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