The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier

The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you'll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered--and met with a multitude of answers.

A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier's fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive--or, as it happens, not to be.

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the story collection Things That Fall from the Sky and the children's novel City of Names. He has published stories in many magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, and his story The Green Children from The Truth About Celia was selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. He has received the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener--Paul Engle Fellowship, two O. Henry Awards (one of which was a first prize), and, most recently, an NEA grant. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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ISBN 13	9781524748838
ISBN 10	1524748838
Titel	The Ghost Variations
Autor	Kevin Brockmeier
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-03-09
Seitenanzahl	288
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