Thomas Murphy: A Novel - Rilegato

“Murph’s rambling monologue reveals discernment and feeling, as a favorite George Eliot quote puts it, especially in riffs on poetry, regret, cooking, and the upside of forgetting.... Murph proves a memorable hero as he faces his last years as though he won’t crash if he goes full tilt.” (Publishers Weekly)

“[P]ure poetry... a brief but lovely rumination on one man’s irresistible impulse to savor life’s riches, even as losses mount and the ravages of age take their relentless toll...With a character as distinctive as this clear-eyed poet by our side, it’s a rewarding journey.” (BookPage)

“Rosenblatt, essayist, memoirist and fiction writer, has created a memorable character with a magnetic personality. There is a wondrous fluidity to his prose. Thomas Murphy is a eulogy to a man who has followed his own rules and who has learned to live with his deepest regrets.” (Washington Post)

‘Thomas Murphy is a joyous ode to language as it gropes to give voice to the ineffable.” (Newsday)

“This is the sort of novel you mark up with pleasurable abandon, so that you can read passages aloud later to someone else... Thomas Murphy is so well written, it was difficult not to.” (East Hampton Star)

“Rosenblatt has always demonstrated an affection for the play of words on the page, and in Murphy he’s created the perfect character to showcase that facility for language... a rewarding journey.” (BookPage)

“In this superb, slim novel, Rosenblatt delivers shrewd and funny observations about always going’full tilt,’ no matter what life throws at you as you age.” (People)

“Rosenblatt’s accomplishment is to draw the reader so completely into Murphy’s mind and heart and memory, so thoroughly into the poet’s amused (and sometimes bemused) consciousness...the writing soars and you are grateful for the fine writer who puts poetry in Murphy’s mouth.” (New York Times Book Review)

“Even when the poems aren’t coming, Murphy is a delight to listen to.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Aging poet Thomas Murphy, whose memory isn’t what it used to be, looks back on his colorful life.” (USA Today, New and Noteworthy)