There are no dips or lags in tempo in this novel. Rosenblatt is a skilled writer who carries the reader through eras and time zones with never a break in voice. Murph’s personality will not be subdued; he refuses to be silenced.
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, that the minimal plot and even less action are rarely cause for complaint.
...the book’s true attraction is the poet’s wonderfully quotable running commentary on 'the grand discombobulation' of experience, which he regards with undimmed enjoyment.
