The View from the Seventh Layer - Rilegato

Brockmeier, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0375425306 ISBN 13: 9780375425301

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2008

Riassunto

A new compilation of short fiction from the author of The Brief History of the Dead features the title story about an asocial young woman who ponders her troubled life and imagines an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity, as well as "The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device" and "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth." 35,000 first printing.

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"Kevin Brockmeier's writing has a light, magical quality that makes it a joy to read. Playful and uninhibited, imaginative and gentle, he's an American Italo Calvino."
--Lydia Millet, author of Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

"Brockmeier is one of my very favorite writers. What amazes me most about him isn't his daunting technical chops or his Millhauser-sized imagination, but that in his finest moments he combines these strengths with a deeper sense of the joys and sorrows of life. These stories are wise and touching, not merely full of delightful surprises but full of heart."
--Stewart O'Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster

"These are beautiful and ethereal stories by an unsettling writer. Brockmeier is a major talent."
--Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row

"Nobody has ever written stories like this. Who else could transpose Chekov into outer space, write a Choose Your Own Adventure story for the human soul, or tell the story of a man's life through the twittering chorus of his parakeets? Each of these stories contains a sentence that will blast open the walled-off regions of your heart like dynamite."
--Karen Russell, author of St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

"I love Kevin Brockmeier's work, not only for its daring innovation and its boundary-defying marriage of the real and the fantastic, but also because of the deep feeling and compassion he brings to the lives of his varies characters. He is one of the best short story writers in America."
--Dan Chaon, author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me

"I am totally enthralled, mesmerized, and jealous of The View from the Seventh Layer. These curious, fragile worlds drew me in like few stories published today. This collection's an instant classic."
--George Singleton, author of Novel and Drowning in Gruel

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0375425306
• ISBN 13: 9780375425301
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 267