The Brief History of the Dead - Hardcover

Brockmeier, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375423699 ISBN 13: 9780375423697

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2006

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In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station, cut off by extreme weather. By tthe author of The Truth About Celia. 30,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children’s novels, City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery. His stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Georgia Review, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and multiple editions of the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology. He is the recipient of a Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener—Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards—one of which was a first prize—and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0375423699
• ISBN 13: 9780375423697
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256