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.
“Lush. . . . At once dark and profound. . . . [The
Illumination] never fails to be deeply felt and precisely
observed.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A beautiful novel. . . . Brockmeier is a dazzling stylist.” —The
Washington Post Book World
“Stunningly original . . . this gorgeously written book will still
stay with [readers] long after the last page is turned.” —The
Oregonian
“Show[s] us the astonishment of life as it is really being lived.”
—The Boston Globe
“Moving. . . . Skillfully explores the relationship between love
and memory.” —The New Yorker
“The depth of [Brockmeier’s] scrutiny makes his fiction glow.” —The
Plain Dealer
“Brockmeier’s characters are wonderful, and his images are
dazzling.” —Detroit Free Press
“The Illumination imagines a real universe of pain and pleasure,
connection and disconnection, and quest for meaning that defines
human experience delightfully anew.” —The Miami Herald
“Brockmeier’s consistently arresting observations have the throb of
lived—rather than merely imagined—experience. . . . In The
Illumination it isn’t our agonies and discomforts that define us,
but the selves we build in response to them.” —Salon
“Brockmeier’s work has always been characterized by his crystalline
and surprising descriptions. . . . Brilliant. . . . Thorough and
honest.” —Southern Literary Review
“Lyrical. . . . Both the quotidian warmth of the notebook and the
increasingly incidental shimmer of physical suffering draw the
characters—and us—into the complex and vivid consideration of some
of the fundamental questions that come with being human.” —The
Times Literary Supplement (London)
“[A] sunlit novel.” —Time Out Chicago
“Fresh and ingenious. . . . Brockmeier has one of those
imaginations that churns out picture-perfect imagery.” —Elle
“Brockmeier’s book positively sparkles . . . We’ve never read
anything like it.” —Daily Candy San Francisco
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