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Things That Fall from the Sky
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Things That Fall from the Sky

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Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.
In the deftly told These Hands,o a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In Apples,o a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. The Jesus Storieso examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning The Ceiling,o a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
15 July 2003
Pages
224
ISBN
9780375727696

Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens.
In the deftly told These Hands,o a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In Apples,o a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. The Jesus Storieso examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning The Ceiling,o a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
15 July 2003
Pages
224
ISBN
9780375727696