Shirley Rousseau Murphy (1928–2022)
Autor(a) de Cat on the Edge
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Starhorn 1 exemplar
Cats Coss Their Graves 1 exemplar
Cat on the Edge (Joe Grey Mystery) by Murphy, Shirley Rousseau (May 1, 1998) Mass Market Paperback 1 exemplar
Cat Bearing Gifts 1 exemplar
Cat Coming Home 1 exemplar
Cat Pay the Devil 1 exemplar
Cat Playing Cupid 1 exemplar
Cat Shining Bright 1 exemplar
Cat Shout for Joy 1 exemplar
Cat Striking Back 1 exemplar
Cat Telling Tales 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-05-20
- Data de falecimento
- 2022-09-23
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Carmel, California, USA
- Educação
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Ocupações
- author
painter
Membros
Discussions
80's Dragon Rider Series - Not Pern em Name that Book (Julho 2009)
Críticas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 64
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 5,288
- Popularidade
- #4,709
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 87
- ISBN
- 290
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 12
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.… (mais)