Kevin Brockmeier, Author . Pantheon $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42134-1
Twenty-eight-year-old Brockmeier won inclusion in the 1997 O. Henry Prize anthology for "These Hands," a delicate and risky story about a male nanny who may be unhealthily attached to the young girl in his care. Lewis, the nanny, tells the...
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Kevin Brockmeier, Author . Pantheon $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-375-42135-8
In his well-received story collection (Things That Fall from the Sky), Brockmeier was hailed as a writer of sinuous, startling prose. That skill is on full display again in this haunting, subdued debut novel, presented as if written by one...
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Kevin Brockmeier, Author . Pantheon $22.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-375-42369-7
A deadly virus has spread rapidly across Earth, effectively cutting off wildlife specialist Laura Byrd at her crippled Antarctica research station from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the planet's dead populate "the city," located on a
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Kevin Brockmeier, Author . Pantheon $21.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-375-42530-1
Brockmeier follows up the acclaimed The Brief History of the Dead
with a collection of 13 stories possessing the enchantment of his two children's books, but with adult twists. In the title story, Olivia lives in a “little red cottageR
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Kevin Brockmeier, Author Katherine Tegen Books $15.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-06-073691-0
Brockmeier's (City of Names) lighthearted novel is sure to please middle-graders who like their fiction over the top. Dwayne Ruggles, fascinated by a presentation on sound given by his seventh-grade science teacher, starts to experiment with a...
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Kevin Brockmeier. Pantheon, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-90898-8
Novelist Brockmeier (The Illumination) experiments with the memoir form as he guides readers through the 12th year of his life in this finely tuned portrait of a tween growing up in suburban Little Rock, Ark. in 1980s. Narrated in the third person,...
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Kevin Brockmeier. Pantheon, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4883-8
Brockmeier (The Illumination) imagines the vicissitudes of the afterlife and the phenomena that haunt the living in this sonorous collection of 100 brief stories. In “The Office of Hereafters and Dissolutions,” a ghost is hounded by a series of...
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Kevin Brockmeier, Author, Kevin Brockenmeier, Author . Viking $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-03565-6
An order-fulfillment snafu affords the offbeat premise for this children's book debut. When fifth-grader Howie Quackenbush orders 101 Pickle Jokes
from his school book club, he instead receives Secret Guide to North Mellwood. The book opens up...
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