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The Illumination

The Illumination

by KevinBrockmeier (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of a hospital patient and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely. I love the soft blue veins on your wrist. I love your lopsided smile. I love watching TV and shelling sunflower seeds with you. The six recipients-a data analyst, a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missionary, a writer, and a street vendor-inhabit an acutely observed, beautifully familiar yet particularly strange universe, as only Kevin Brockmeier could imagine it:

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 17 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0224093371
ISBN 13: 9780224093378
Book Overview: From best-selling and award-winning American author Kevin Brockmeier, a novel which completely reimagines the world...

Media Reviews
Praise for The Illumination By the end, I imagined that if I tore a page from the novel itself, the binding would give off a sharp and penetrating light. --Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered Spectacular . . . achingly beautiful . . . Underscoring (his characters') conflicts is the haunting, harrowing, and deeply hypnotic pull of Brockmeier's lush language, where even the direst pain becomes poetic. -- Boston Globe Stunningly original . . . this gorgeously written book will still stay with them long after the last page is turned. -- Portland Oregonian Brockmeier's book positively sparkles . . . We've never read anything like it. -- Daily Candy San Francisco The depth of this writer's scrutiny makes his fiction glow. --Cleveland Plain Dealer The writing consistently astonishes . . . [a] sunlit novel. -- Time Out Chicago Brockmeier's literary ability lives up to the hauntingly appr
Author Bio
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia; the children's novels City of Names and Grooves- A Kind of Mystery; and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. In addition to The New Yorker, he has published in The New York Times, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the O. Henry- Prize Stories anthology. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. He's the 2009 guest editor for the anthology series Best American Fantasy 3 and was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. Brockmeier lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.