View from the Seventh Layer

Name: View from the Seventh Layer
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ISBN: 9780307387769

ISBN-10: 0307387763

ISBN-13: 9780307387769

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Authors: Kevin Brockmeier

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Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life,KevinBrockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.29" wide x 7.98" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.440

Kevin Brockmeier won an O. Henry Award in 2001 for "These Hands". He has published stories in the Georgia Review. The Carolina Quarterly, The Chicago Tribune (as a Nelson Algren award recipient) & Writing on the Edge (as an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award Winner). He is a 1999-2000 recipient of a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship. Kevin lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he teaches Creative Writing.