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Garden City is the middle-class Long Island village where Elliott Murphy grew up, wrote his first story (Getting Away contained herein) and learned to play guitar and eventually sing and write highly persona songs, planting the seeds for an international career as a professional singer-songwriter that has spanned nearly five decades. Still a beautiful town, with well-kept lawns and a perceptible high maintenance of American bourgeoise civility, Garden City is similar to so many suburban towns where world-class dreams begin to take shape in teenage fantasies. This collection spans centuries, from the mid 20th to the second decade of the 21st and all of the stories in this collection bear some connection to the author's roots.

ELLIOT MURPHY IS GOING TO BE A MONSTER That's exactly what giant New York City subway posters boldly prophesied in 1973 after the release of this Long Island singer-songwriters critically praised debut album Aquashow. In this honest and gripping memoir Elliott Murphy describes a childhood of show biz affluence, the tragic loss of a famous father, a European sojourn where he encountered Federico Fellini and a love for the old world, and perhaps most provocatively, his journey through the minefields of rock stardom where he fittingly describes true success as best being measured in terms of pure survival. From the glam world of 1970's Manhattan to fabled LA recording studios and on to what was left of swinging London before finally finding his home, love and a faithful public in Paris, Just A Story From America, is an insightful journey into the daunting world of the music business from the unique perspective of an internationally acclaimed artist you may never have heard of even while songs such as Last of the Rock Stars, Drive all Night and A Touch of Kindness travelled on radio-airwaves all around the world for decades. A moving and not often heard story told from the perspective of an artist who has gone from celebrity to anonymity and back again and lived to tell the tale.

Paris Stories is a collection of eleven vibrant short stories by American singer/songwriter Elliott Murphy, author of two novels and over thirty-five albums of original music. Mostly written in Europe where he has lived since 1989, these stories reflect the same spirit of the expatriate experience as found in Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway while capturing the evolving mood of the city of light itself itself during the last years of the 20th Century.

Forty Poems in Forty Nights is the first collection of pure poetry by noted American singer/songwriter Elliott Murphy.

Diamonds by the Yard is the story of Lexi Langdon, a beautiful young heiress from Houston, Texas, living in New York with her husband Ray Arthur - a record company executive with dangerous Mafia ties - and her affair with Lee Franklin, an ambitious and charismatic singer-songwriter. The setting is New York City and the East End of Long Island, The Hamptons, in 1975-76, a time when excessive and flamboyant behavior was the norm. The rich and famous interact with characters from all walks of life, from notorious mafia hoodlums and punk rock musicians to celebrities of all types. Told within the historical context of the time, Diamonds by the Yard is set against the backdrop of the end of the Vietnam War, New York City on the verge of bankruptcy, Philippe Petit tightrope walking across the World Trade Centers, the spectacular bicentennial July 4th celebration in New York harbor, the launch of Saturday Night Live and the cocaine drenched Discomania that enveloped the city. From the expansive lawns of East Hampton mansions to the formal dining rooms of 5th Avenue triplex apartments, from the punk palace CBGB to the multi-million dollar yacht The Yellow Rose, this intense and multi-layered novel recreates an era in American history which can only be compared in opulence and outrageousness to that found in The Great Gatsby.