Kevin Brockmeier
Autor(a) de The Brief History of the Dead
About the Author
Kevin Brockmeier won an O. Henry Award in 2001 for "These Hands". He has published stories in the Georgia Review. The Carolina Quarterly, The Chicago Tribune (as a Nelson Algren award recipient) & Writing on the Edge (as an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award Winner). He is a 1999-2000 recipient of a mostrar mais James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship. Kevin lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he teaches Creative Writing. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Kevin Brockmeier
Unstuck #3: New Literature of the Futuristic, the Fantastic, the Surreal, and the Strange (2014) 5 cópias
The Year of Silence 2 cópias
Andrea is Changing Her Name 1 exemplar(es)
Apples [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets 1 exemplar(es)
The Untimely Death of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 exemplar(es)
These Hands 1 exemplar(es)
The Green Children [short story] 1 exemplar(es)
Breu historia dels que ja no hi son 2005 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contribuinte — 982 cópias
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Contribuinte — 232 cópias
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contribuinte — 57 cópias
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1972-12-06
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Locais de residência
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Educação
- Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991)
Southwest Missouri State University (1995)
Iowa's Writers Workshop - Ocupação
- novelist
writer
author - Premiações
- Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (2007)
O. Henry Award (2002)
Nelson Algren Award
Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award - Agente
- Jennifer Carlson
Membros
Discussions
The Brief History of the Dead (SPOILER ALERT) em Someone explain it to me... (Janeiro 2008)
Resenhas
Enjoyed this one quite a lot and I'm looking forward to reading more Brockmeier.
I thought the concept was fantastic and I found it to be a page turner even though I can't say a whole lot actually happens in book.
Wasn't thrilled with the ending because it got so muddled but I think that was intentional.
I thought the concept was fantastic and I found it to be a page turner even though I can't say a whole lot actually happens in book.
Wasn't thrilled with the ending because it got so muddled but I think that was intentional.
An odd but well-written set of short stories that usually weren't really to my taste. I appreciated the skill at work but rarely found them satisfying, perhaps because I'm just not familiar enough with the modern literate short story. Many of them seem to end hanging on a moment of quiet that can come off as ambivalent but is probably really intended to be subtlety.
I did enjoy a few stories, notably "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth" and "A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets."… (mais)
I did enjoy a few stories, notably "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth" and "A Fable with Slips of White Paper Spilling from the Pockets."… (mais)
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- Obras
- 26
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- 18
- Membros
- 4,051
- Popularidade
- #6,214
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 241
- ISBNs
- 68
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 13
The story is strange - about a world where pain glows with light - and his characters are all troubled and riddled with pain. Their stories are loosely intertwined in a way that reminded me that the world is smaller than we think.
I wish I knew what happened to all these people after the book ended.