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Sean Murphy

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Born

New York, The United States

Website

http://www.murphyzen.com

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Witold Gombrowicz, Douglas A ...more

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SEAN MURPHY'S debut novel, The Hope Valley Hubcap King, (Bantam/Dell, 2002/2004), won the Hemingway Award for a First Novel and was a 2003 Book Sense pick. See info on his latest, The Time of New Weather, below. He is also the author of the Pulitzer-nominated The Finished Man (Bantam/Dell 2004), as well as One Bird, One Stone (Renaissance/St. Martins 2002), a nonfiction chronicle of Zen practice in America. He has been a Zen meditation practitioner for 20 years, and teaches meditation, creative writing and literature for UNM-Taos, as well as leading writing workshops for a variety of organizations and his own Big Sky Writing Workshops ...more

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	The Hope Valley Hubcap King: A Novel 3.69 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Bird, One Stone: 108 Contemporary Zen Stories by Sean Murphy (Goodreads Author), Natalie Goldberg (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time of New Weather 3.47 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Finished Man: A Novel 3.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punk Rock Jesus 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	No Fire No Thunder by Sean Murphy (Goodreads Author), Steven Rose 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics

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The Dude and the Zen Master

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“The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.”
― Sean Murphy, Not to Mention a Nice Life

tags: humor, identity, irony, rage, temper

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“GOTHAM'I SEVİYORUM VE ARTIK JOKER'IN YAPTIKLARINI TELAFİ ETME ZAMANIM GELDİ. BU ŞEHİR SİZDEN, JOKER'DEN VE KARA ŞÖVALYE'DEN DAHA İYİSİNİ HAK EDİYOR. İŞTE BU YÜZDEN BEN, BU ŞEHRİN BEYAZ ŞÖVALYE'Sİ OLACAĞIM.”
― Sean Murphy, Batman: White Knight Presenteert: Harley Quinn 1/2

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