The view from the seventh layer / Kevin Brockmeier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brockmeier, Kevin.

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

267 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2008]

Summary:

In these three stories, 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. 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. And a choose-your-own-adventure novel for grown-ups concludes the volume.

Contents:

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 its pockets.

ISBN:

9780375425301

0375425306

OCLC:

138342596