Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier

Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier's richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.
In the deftly told These Hands, a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In Apples, a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. The Jesus Stories examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning The Ceiling, a man's marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending.
Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of several books, including The Short History of the Dead, The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children's books. He is a former instructor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Oxford American, among other journals, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and Henry Prize Stories He is a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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ISBN 13	9780375727696
ISBN 10	0375727698
Title	Things that Fall from the Sky
Author	Kevin Brockmeier
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-07-08
Number of pages	224
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