Things That Fall from the Sky

Name: Things That Fall from the Sky
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ISBN: 9780375727696

ISBN-10: 0375727698

ISBN-13: 9780375727696

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Authors: Kevin Brockmeier

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Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/8/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

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.



These Hands


Things That Fall from the Sky


Apples


A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin


The Ceiling


Small Degrees


The Jesus Stories


Space


The Passenger


The Light through the Window


The House at the End of the World