Murphy's Bed is a novel that tells the funny, bawdy coming-of-age story of Bobby Murphy, a young man who finds himself growing up gay in a modern, upper-middle class religious Catholic family. The book combines themes found in Portnoy's Complaint, Catcher in the Rye and A Prayer for Owen Meany in a humorous and ultimately deeply moving tale. The reader will be both entertained and emotionally moved by a story that contains laugh-out-loud sexual antics, universal issues of family conflict, and religious elements that will touch the heart and soul. In the novel's stirring climax, an international media scandal is created by any extraordinary set of circumstances that result in Bobby Murphy becoming a world-widel phenomenon. While Murphy's Bed is fast-paced and outrageously funny, the overall impact is powerful and profound, with an ending that will leave the reader caught between laughter and tears.
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