Kevin Brockmeier
Auteur de Une brève histoire des morts
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship. Kevin lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he teaches Creative Writing. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Kevin Brockmeier
Unstuck #3: New Literature of the Futuristic, the Fantastic, the Surreal, and the Strange (2014) 5 exemplaires
The Brief History Of The Dead [short story] 2 exemplaires
The Year of Silence 2 exemplaires
Andrea is Changing Her Name 1 exemplaire
Apples [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Untimely Death of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 exemplaire
These Hands 1 exemplaire
The Green Children [short story] 1 exemplaire
Breu historia dels que ja no hi son 2005 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contributeur — 982 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contributeur — 233 exemplaires
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Contributeur — 232 exemplaires
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2009) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1972-12-06
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Études
- Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991)
Southwest Missouri State University (1995)
Iowa's Writers Workshop - Professions
- novelist
writer
author - Prix et distinctions
- Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (2007)
O. Henry Award (2002)
Nelson Algren Award
Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award - Agent
- Jennifer Carlson
Membres
Discussions
The Brief History of the Dead (SPOILER ALERT) à Someone explain it to me... (Janvier 2008)
Critiques
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."… (plus d'informations)
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."… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 4,044
- Popularité
- #6,225
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 241
- ISBN
- 68
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 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.