{"id":5866,"date":"2023-01-20T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2023-01-20T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:22:18","slug":"updike-makes-cillian-murphys-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/01\/20\/updike-makes-cillian-murphys-top-10-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike makes Cillian Murphy’s Top 10 list"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Books of Brilliance<\/em> asked Irish actor Cillian Murphy<\/strong> (Inception<\/em>, The Dark Knight<\/em>, Breakfast on Pluto<\/em>, Peaky Blinders<\/em>) to name his 10 favorite books. Murphy, who won a Best Actor Irish Film and Television Award for playing a young trans woman in Breakfast on Pluto<\/em>, told Books of Brilliance<\/a><\/em>, “I’m less interested in the good man’s life, I’m more interested in the conflicted man’s life or the contradictory man’s life.” That has applied to his choice of roles as well as his choice of reading. Cillian’s 10 favorite books:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014The Ginger Man<\/em>, by J.P. Donleavy
\u2014The Butcher Boy<\/em>, by Patrick McCabe
\u2014The Sportswriter<\/em>, by Richard Ford
\u2014Jeff in Venice, Death in Varnasi<\/em>, by Geoff Dyer
\u2014Grief is the Thing with Feathers<\/em>, by Max Porter
\u2014Eclipse<\/em>, by John Banville
\u2014”Rabbit” series, by John Updike<\/strong>
\u2014The Old Man and the Sea<\/em>, by Ernest Hemingway
\u2014The Grass Arena<\/em>, by John Healy
\u2014Appointment in Samarra<\/em>, by John O’Hara<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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