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Out Now: At Five in the Afternoon by Michael Murphy. The eagerly-awaited memoir by RTE's Michael Murphy is out now.
September 2009
Walsh Communications are delighted to announce that Michael Murphy's eagerly-awaited memoir, detailing his battle with male cancer, At Five in the Afternoon, is out now. Available to buy from bookshops now.
At Five in the Afternoon by Michael Murphy is published by Brandon books and is available in hardback and paperbook in bookshops nationwide.
This unique memoir is about experiencing cancer, but it is also about so much more. It is about masculinity, family, women, life, love and loss. It is about the very essence of the human condition.
Michael Murphy is an admired broadcaster, writer and psychoanalyst, and this is a pathbreaking book which has a very special relevance for all whose lives have been touched by cancer, but which also appeals to anyone who loves to read a moving story exceptionally well told.
In a memoir exceptional for the quality of its writing the author illustrates all aspects of the cancer theme – traumatic assault, mortality, endurance, redemption – through the lives of the personalities, and in particular the women, in his life.
He draws on his unique background in psychoanalysis, in the art of constructing television programmes, and on his broadcasting experience as newscaster, where the human voice is privileged, to write a beautiful, layered book about the importance of saying, about putting the world of the imagination into words.
The book is unflinchingly truthful, and speaks of the masculine quest for the father, the necessity of freedom, of what it means to be a man, the value and strength of women, and of how to cope with adversity, topics which are narrated against the background of a changing world.
As Mary Robinson writes in her Foreword:
His book is unflinchingly honest, and he breaks down the taboo around men speaking the unspeakable...
What I have realised is that in writing about all aspects of the cancer theme – traumatic assault, mortality, endurance – Michael has created a personal myth to live by. His memoir graphically treats of themes which take enormous risks of courage to put into words, but through the exceptional quality of his writing, they have become a pillar of light which has enabled him to continue on in the warmth of its lustre, despite his loss and the limits that have now been reached.
MICHAEL MURPHY
Michael Murphy is a Psychoanalyst and Broadcaster, well known as one of Ireland's best loved newscasters on RTE. His first book, At Five in the Afternoon, will be published by Brandon Books in September 2009.
Click here to watch Michael's appearance on The Late Late Show on the 11th September 2009.
Click here to visit Michael's website.
Available from bookshops in the UK and Ireland.
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