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The Illumination

The Illumination - Paperback

by Kevin Brockmeier
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin BrockmeierSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:2012-02-21Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307387776ISBN-10:307387771UPC:9780307387776Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Magical Realism, PsychologicalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCQ479QQT8
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, and Philadelphia City Paper

What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us?

At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, and from there through the hands of five other people--a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor. As their stories unfold, we come to understand how intricately and brilliantly they are connected, in all their human injury and experience. With the artistry and imagination that have become his trademark, Kevin Brockmeier reveals a world that only he could imagine, casting his gaze on the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307387776ISBN-10:307387771UPC:9780307387776Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Magical Realism, PsychologicalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCQ479QQT8
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The View from the Seventh Layer, The Brief History of the Dead, The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children's novels. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, among other publications. He has taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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