A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories

by JohnMurray (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $19.40

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  Paperback
  2004

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  Each of these eight stories places readers at the treacherous intersection where chaos meets order. In The Hill Station, a young microbiologist gains a fuller understanding of death, disease, and her own life when she witnesses the ravaged lives and despairing faces of those for whom cholera is more than germs swimming under a microscope. A collection that challenges readers to place themselves in the lives of characters whose predicaments and choices lead us inexorably toward our own.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.41

  An American scientist, lecturing on cholera in Bombay, visits a makeshift hospital and makes a decision that will change her life forever. A carpenter sits in the Australian beach house he built for his adored wife, hearing strange noises in the walls. An aid worker in war-torn Africa watches, powerless, as a mission church, filled with people, is burned to the ground. John Murray's extraordinary stories unfold to reveal whole lives - people caught between the past and the present, between different cultures, and between their intellect and emotions. Muscular, atmospheric, by turns hilarious, horrifying and unbearably moving, these stories show their author to be a formidably talented writer.