Kevin Brockmeier
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The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 3.60 — 1,960 ratings — published 2006 15 editions |
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The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 4.03 — 147 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Things that Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 3.96 — 141 ratings — published 2002 2 editions |
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The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 3.80 — 137 ratings — published 2003 2 editions |
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Grooves: A Kind of Mystery by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 3.18 — 33 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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McSweeney's 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly, Volume 7) by Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon Chris Ware avg rating 4.00 — 27 ratings — published 2001 |
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City of Names by Kevin Brockmeier avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 2002 |
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The Best American Fantasy 3 by Kevin Brockmeier, Matthew Cheney avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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"There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay."
— Kevin Brockmeier (The View from the Seventh Layer)
— Kevin Brockmeier (The View from the Seventh Layer)
"Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it."
— Kevin Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead)
— Kevin Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead)
"A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place."
— Kevin Brockmeier
— Kevin Brockmeier
