Michael Murphy has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Golf in the Kingdom.
Golf in the Kingdom
Summary
Hailed as a classic when it first appeared in 1972, Michael Murphy's novel combines an amiable Zen mysticism with what many consider the very mystical - and sometimes downright frustrating - sport of golf. At its center is the charming guru of the Scottish links, Shivas Irons, whose instruction is as pertinent in life as it is on the course. After a long wait, this shamanic golf pro reappeared for the follow-up novel, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons, also available from BDD Audio.
©1998 Michael Murphy (P)1998 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.
The President's Husband
Summary
When an assassin's bullet strikes his predecessor, Grayson Alexander becomes the first openly gay president of the United States and his husband, David Hammond, becomes the first openly gay First Husband. With their world turned upside down, David relies on his career as a medical school professor and ER doctor to keep him grounded. But his decision to keep working ruffles feathers from day one. Gray throws himself into learning everything he needs to know to be president, especially a liberal president surrounded by a conservative cabinet and staff. Even though he puts in outrageous hours working and traveling seven days a week, month after month, he's happy. But David has trouble coping with Gray's new job requirements. He can't help but feel abandoned by his husband of 10 years. When Gray asks for his help with a public-health crisis, David obliges, but he is furious about what happens once the emergency passes. When they learn that the president's staff has manipulated them both, they wonder if their relationship can survive the White House.
©2016 Michael Murphy (P)2016 Dreamspinner Press
Shotgun Blues
Summary
It sounded like the perfect crime: low risk, nonviolent, high reward, and when it was all over, three amateur thieves would have more money than they'd ever dreamed possible. What they never counted on was that another group of intruders - intruders with no qualms about spilling blood - had their sights set on the same objective, and would stop at nothing to protect what they saw as their property. And so begins a deadly chase that would lead to an all-night standoff between five deranged criminals and six lightly armed, underdefended men and women in a broken down bar, cut off from help and with little more than their wits to defeat the enemy. Only time and the will to survive would determine who would live to see the dawn.
©2016 Michael P Murphy (P)2017 Michael P Murphy
The Kingdom of Shivas Irons
Summary
Originally published in 1972, Michael Murphy's Golf in the Kingdom has become one of the best-selling golf books of all time and has been hailed as "a golf classic if any exists in our day" (John Updike) and "a masterpiece on the mysticism of golf" (San Francisco Chronicle). Golf in the Kingdom introduced Shivas Irons, the golf pro and philosopher with whom Murphy played a mythic round of golf on Scotland's Burningbush links, a round that profoundly altered his game and vision. Shivas' insights about competition, life, and "true gravity", all instilled in him by his elusive mentor Seamus MacDuff, captured the imaginations and the devoted following of students of the inner game of golf. The Kingdom of Shivas Irons is the enchanting story of Murphy's return to Scotland to investigate reports of further visitations by Shivas Irons and to answer questions about him and MacDuff that have haunted Murphy since his original trip to Burningbush some 31 years before. Murphy and his companion, Buck Hannigan, a skeptical physicist fascinated by Shivas's connections to metanormal events, embark on a magical quest for Irons and MacDuff - and their wisdom about golf and human potential. From the mystical golf course surrounding MacDuff's estate in Scotland, across the world to the first Russian Open Golf Championship, and finally to Pebble Beach on the California Coast, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons is a delightful exploration of the deep truths about the game of golf and a provocative inquiry into our remarkable possibilities for growth and transformation.
©1997 Michael Murphy (P)1997 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.
God and the Evolving Universe
Summary
In God and the Evolving Universe, James Redfield and Michael Murphy present an important message of hope and a vision for the future. The authors contend that thousands of years of human striving have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded spiritual experience. God and the Evolving Universe deepens our knowledge of personal growth and shows how each of us can begin to integrate our extraordinary experiences into a heightened, synchronistic flow and creative participation in the world.
©2002 James Redfield, Michael Murphy, and Sylvia Timbers. Recorded by arrangement with Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. (P)2002 HighBridge Company