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...
| Main Author: | Brockmeier, Kevin. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
c2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.