Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies

"This collection relies on a wide range of settings to make up for the limitations of its individual stories....But Murray's stories provide other pleasures, like his fine ear for Indian English speech and above all his vivid sense of detail....In fact, Murray has a gift for the precise description of everything that can be seen or heard, tasted, smelled or felt....The book's strongest sections left me wishing he had let them kick out into expansive life--had tried to find out whether, inside their slender forms, a novel might be waiting....Still, one has to admire Murray's range, his willingness to experiment. In some ways, he can be a very attractive writer--above all, in the understated modesty of his authorial presence.Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies, with ISBN 9780060532239 and ISBN 0060532238.