The Kick
Subtitle: A Memoir
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: August 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781862075702
Subjects: Biography: general; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th Century English Poetry; Biography & Autobiography; English; Biography/Autobiography; General; Literary; History / Ireland; IRELAND_INTELLECTUAL LIFE; Murphy, Richard; POETS_BIOGRAPHY; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: A year before my mother died on 28 January 1995, at the age of ninety-six, my older sister Mary was driving her across the moors in Northumberland to enjoy the view, when our mother turned to her and said, 'Darling, I'm afraid you'll have to get me put down, because I'm never going to die naturally - the trouble is I don't want to miss anything.'