Shirley Rousseau Murphy (1928–2022)

Autore di Cat on the Edge

64+ opere 5,296 membri 87 recensioni 12 preferito

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Fiction author Shirley Rousseau Murphy grew up in Long Beach, California and majored in fine and commercial art at the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked as a commercial artist and has exhibited paintings and sculptures extensively on the West Coast. She has also been a designer and an mostra altro interior designer, as well as in a library in the Panama Canal Zone. Murphy has written several children's books, plus the fantasy novel The Catswold Portal, the Dragonbards trilogy, and the popular Joe Grey mystery series, for which she has won eight Muse Medallion awards from the Cat Writers' Association. She and her husband live in Carmel, California. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Joe Grey

The Children of Ynell

Dragonbards

Lee Fontana Series

Opere di Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Popolari Recenti

Cat on the Edge (1996) 457 copie

The Catswold Portal (1992) 407 copie

Cat Under Fire (1996) 279 copie

Cat in the Dark (1999) 261 copie

Cat Raise the Dead (1997) 246 copie

Cat to the Dogs (2000) 245 copie

Cat Laughing Last (2002) 227 copie

Cat Breaking Free (2005) 214 copie

Cat Spitting Mad (2001) 212 copie

Cat Seeing Double (2003) 189 copie

Cat Fear No Evil (2004) 186 copie

Cat Cross Their Graves (2005) 181 copie

Cat Deck the Halls (2007) 174 copie

Cat Pay the Devil (2007) 168 copie

Cat Playing Cupid (2009) 145 copie

Cat Coming Home (2010) 119 copie

Cat Striking Back (2009) 119 copie

Cat Telling Tales (2011) 117 copie

Nightpool (1985) 112 copie

Cat Bearing Gifts (2012) 87 copie

The Ivory Lyre (1987) 84 copie

Cat Shout for Joy (1672) 81 copie

The Ring of Fire (1977) 70 copie

Wind Child (1973) 69 copie

The Wolf Bell (1979) 67 copie

The Dragonbards (1988) 66 copie

Silver Woven in My Hair (1977) 56 copie

The Castle of Hape (1980) 54 copie

Soonie and the Dragon (1979) 54 copie

The Cat, the Devil, the Last Escape (2015) 48 copie

Caves of Fire and Ice (1980) 48 copie

Cat Chase the Moon (2019) 46 copie

Cat Shining Bright (2017) 46 copie

Tattie's River Journey (1983) 45 copie

The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana (2014) 43 copie

The Joining of the Stone (1981) 38 copie

Cat on the Money (2010) 34 copie

White Ghost Summer (1969) 33 copie

Valentine for a Dragon (1984) 29 copie

Christmas Cats (2005) 22 copie

The Song of the Christmas Mouse (1990) 15 copie

Elmo Doolan and the Search for the Golden Mouse (1970) 13 copie

The Flight of the Fox (1978) 12 copie

Poor Jenny, Bright as a Penny (1974) 11 copie

Medallion of the Black Hound (1989) 10 copie

The Sand Ponies (1967) 9 copie

Mrs. Tortino's Return to the Sun (1980) 8 copie

The Dragonbards Trilogy: Complete in One Volume (2016) 7 copie

The Grass Tower (1976) 6 copie

The Shattered Stone (2011) 5 copie

The Runestone of Eresu (2011) 4 copie

The Pig Who Could Conjure the Wind (1978) 4 copie

Carlos Charles (1971) 3 copie

Starhorn 1 copia

Cats Coss Their Graves 1 copia

Cat on the Edge (Joe Grey Mystery) by Murphy, Shirley Rousseau (May 1, 1998) Mass Market Paperback 1 copia

Cat Bearing Gifts 1 copia

Cat Coming Home 1 copia

Cat Pay the Devil 1 copia

Cat Playing Cupid 1 copia

Cat Shining Bright 1 copia

Cat Shout for Joy 1 copia

Cat Striking Back 1 copia

Cat Telling Tales 1 copia

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Opere correlate

The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (1988) — Collaboratore — 257 copie

Motherhood Is Murder (2003) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 109 copie

Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold (1989) — Collaboratore — 39 copie

Murder Most Feline: Cunning Tales of Cats and Crime (2001) — Collaboratore — 31 copie

Anywhere, Anywhen: Stories of Tomorrow (1976) — Collaboratore — 12 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1928-05-20
Data di morte: 2022-09-23
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di residenza: Carmel, California, USA
Istruzione: San Francisco Art Institute
Attività lavorative: author
painter

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Discussioni

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Recensioni

Cat on the Edge di Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Joe Grey is a cat who has inexplicably found himself possessed of human-style intelligence and the capacity for human speech, although he doesn't like to do it in front of people. Then he witnesses a murder and has reason to believe someone is going to try to pin it on his human.

It's a really cute idea, but I have to say the execution just felt kind of... weird... to me. The author is prone to describing things, especially the cats, in this slightly over-done, almost flowery-feeling way that kept making me stop and wonder if it was meant to be some sort of self-parody. I don't think it was, though, which is kind of a shame, because I think this could have been really fun if it had leaned into the absurdity of its premise a little more and thrown in some humor.

It did still have an entertaining moment or two, and I like the author's spot-on observations about how normal cats communicate using body language, but mostly I think reading it just gave me lots of distracting thoughts of how I would have written everything in it differently.… (altro)

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