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  • The Brief History of the Dead

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Catastrophe

    And Other Stories

    "Weird [and] wonderful" stories by a Strega Prize winner with "shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava" ( Los Angeles Times).From "The Epidemic," which traces the gradual effects of a "state influenza" that targets those who disagree with the government, to "The Collapse of the Baliverna," in which a man puzzles over whether a misstep on his ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ghost Variations

    One Hundred Stories

    Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers.A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Illumination

    A Novel

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us?From best-selling and award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier: a new novel of stunning artistry and imagination about the wounds we bear and the light that radiates from us all.At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination commences. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Things that Fall from the Sky

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip

    A Memoir of Seventh Grade

    At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether.Over the course of one school year—seventh grade—he sets out in search of himself. Along the way, he happens into his first kiss at a church ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Truth About Celia

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-year-old Celia suddenly disappears while her father Christopher is inside giving a tour of their historic house and her mother Janet is at an orchestra rehearsal.Utterly shattered, Christopher, a writer of fantasy and science fiction, withdraws from everyone around him, especially his wife, losing himself in his writing by conjuring up ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The View from the Seventh Layer

    Stories

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life,KevinBrockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intimately familiar but somehow distant and beautiful. From the touching title story, where a young, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Ghosts and Speculation

    from The Ghost Variations

    Series series A Vintage Short
    Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. “Ghosts and Speculation,” an excerpt from Kevin Brockmeier’s extraordinary compendium of one hundred ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Brief History of the Dead

    Narrated by Richard Poe ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip

    A Memoir of Seventh Grade

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip follows twelve-year-old Kevin Brockmeier over the course of a single school year as he sets out in search of himself: losing old friends and gaining new ones, happening into his first kiss, writing plays and stories, dressing as Dolly Parton for Halloween, booby-trapping his lunch to deter a thief. With the same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that are ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Ghost Variations

    One Hundred Stories

    Narrated by Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 7 min

    Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers.A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly ... Read more

    $23.00 CAD