The View From The Seventh Layer.

Brockmeier, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0375425306 / ISBN 13: 9780375425301

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 2008

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing. This is the softcover, Uncorrected Bound Galleys, of the hardcover book that was published in March 2008. 266 pages. A collection of stories that are by turns, daring and moving. From the fantastical to the concrete, the range of this collection is breathtaking. As new, in plain lavender wraps. Unread. From my smoke-free collection.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The View From The Seventh Layer.
• Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375425306
• ISBN 13: 9780375425301
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Kevin Brockmeier--award -winning author of The Brief History of the Dead--has been widely praised for the richness of his imagination, the lyrical grace and playfulness of his language, and the empathic emotional complexity of his storytelling. And this dazzling collection once again affirms his place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.

In the haunting title story, a young, asocial woman remembers the oddly honest things she wrote in her high school classmates' yearbooks and contemplates her scarred life, imagining an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity. In "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth," a formerly dull and turgid pastor is touched by a spirit that turns his sermons into crowd-pleasers--that is, until he discovers his inspiration is a little less than divine. "The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device" is a gorgeous homage to the classic, young readers' choose-your-own-adventure novels. But this one is for grown-ups who can navigate through imagery and dead ends, and toward a resolution that only Kevin Brockmeier could have invented. From the fantastical to the concrete, the range of this collection is breathtaking. It moves fluidly, finding beauty in the quiet, often overlooked corners of the world.

By turns daring and moving, The View from the Seventh Layer is crafted with the remarkable voice and vision that have become hallmarks of Brockmeier's acclaimed fiction.

About the Author

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Brief History of the Dead, The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children's novels. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney's and Oxford American, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.