The Brief History of the Dead
by Brockmeier, Kevin
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0719568331
- ISBN 13
- 9780719568336
- Seller
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Georgetown, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
Brilliant! The only book in recent memory which has me anxiously awaiting the death of the main character. It still has me thinking long after the last page was turned.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Laura Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036560
- Title
- The Brief History of the Dead
- Author
- Brockmeier, Kevin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719568331
- ISBN 13
- 9780719568336
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- The Brief History of the Dead
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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