The view from the seventh layer

In these three stories, a young, asocial woman remembers the oddly honest things she wrote in her high school classmates' yearbooks and contemplates her scarred life, imagining an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity. A formerly dull and turgid pastor is touched by a spirit that turns his...

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Main Author: Brockmeier, Kevin
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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520 |a In these three stories, a young, asocial woman remembers the oddly honest things she wrote in her high school classmates' yearbooks and contemplates her scarred life, imagining an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity. A formerly dull and turgid pastor is touched by a spirit that turns his sermons into crowd-pleasers--that is, until he discovers his inspiration is a little less than divine. And a choose-your-own-adventure novel for grown-ups concludes the volume. 
505 0 |a A fable ending in the sound of a thousand parakeets -- The view from the seventh layer -- The lives of the philosophers -- The year of silence -- A fable with a photograph of a glass mobile on the wall -- Father John Melby and the ghost of Amy Elizabeth -- The human soul as a Rube Goldberg device : a choose-your-own adventure story -- The lady with the pet tribble -- A fable containing a reflection the size of a match head in its pupil -- Home videos -- The air is full of little holes -- Andrea is changing her name -- A fable with slips of white paper spilling from its pockets. 
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