The View from the Seventh Layer
Stories
Published on 4. March 2008
288 pages
978-0-307-37710-4 (ISBN)
Description
Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier 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 playful, The View from the Seventh Layer cements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.
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Person
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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- A Fable Ending in the Sound of a Thousand Parakeets
- The View from the Seventh Layer
- The Lives of the Philosophers
- The Year of Silence
- A Fable with a Photograph of a Glass Mobile on the Wall
- Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth
- The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story
- The Lady with the Pet Tribble
- A Fable Containing a Reflection the Size of a Match Head in Its Pupil
- Home Videos
- The Air Is Full of Little Holes
- Andrea Is Changing Her Name
- A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Also by Kevin Brockmeier
- Copyright
