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" The view from the seventh layer / "
Kevin Brockmeier.
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BL
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1022729
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b777099
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| Main Entry
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Brockmeier, Kevin.
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The view from the seventh layer /\ Kevin Brockmeier.
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1st ed.
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New York :: Pantheon Books,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (267 pages)
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| ISBN
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0307377105
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: 9780307377104
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0307387763
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0375425306
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9780307387769
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9780375425301
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| Abstract
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In the haunting title story, 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. In "Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth," 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. "The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device" is a gorgeous homage to the classic, young readers' choose-your-own-adventure novels. But this one is for grown-ups who can navigate through imagery and dead ends, and toward a resolution that only Kevin Brockmeier could have invented.
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories.
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FICTION-- General.
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Short stories, American.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.6
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PS3602.R63V54 2008eb
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