Five-Finger Exercise with Doctors and Insects. "A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies" by John Murray. [review]
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2003-10
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Borghino, Jose
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Australian Book Review
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Murray knows what he’s doing with the short story form. Hardly a wrong note is sounded or tentative step taken in 274 pages. This is an assured début. Murray is of the ‘epiphanic’ school of short story writers who leave a narrative dangling at a moment when the protagonist has reached an understanding about himself, or his past, or the world. Often, this comes about after some meditation on the past, the evocation of a memory or, most typically, in the feeling of loss when thinking about the past.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, medical doctor, Hippocratic oath, India, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Jose Borghino
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Borghino, Jose 2003. Five-Finger Exercise with Doctors and Insects. Review of "A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies" by John Murray. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 44.