Background
Brockmeier, who was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a graduate of Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School (1991) and Southwest Missouri State University (1995).
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Grooves: A Kind of Mystery
( A quirky middle–grade novel about an enterprising seven...)
A quirky middle–grade novel about an enterprising seventh–grader who discovers an astonishing plea for help in the grooves of his blue jeans. Dwayne Ruggles is a regular kid living in a regular town until evil entrepreneur Howard Thigpen shows up. Thigpen seems to have the ability to make people do whatever he wants, and sparks of light swirl around him wherever he goes. But the mystery doesn't stop there. Dwayne discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen–brand blue jeans and the ripples in his Thigpen–brand potato chips contain a secret message, "Please. You must help us. He's stealing the light from our eyes." It's a race against time to solve the mystery, but first Dwayne better figure out what that strange message means. Ages 8+
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By Kevin Brockmeier - Things that Fall from the Sky (2003-07-23) Paperback
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The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (2007-01-09)
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Grooves: A Kind of Mystery by Kevin Brockmeier (February 28,2006)
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The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier (2004-07-13)
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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The Brief History of the Dead
( From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most in...)
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 holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.
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The Truth About Celia
(While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-...)
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 worlds where Celia still exists—as a child, as a teenager, as a young single mother—and revealing in his stories not only his own point of view but also those of Janet, the policeman in charge of the case, and the townspeople affected by the tragedy, ultimately culminating in a portrait of a small town changed forever. The Truth About Celia is a profound meditation on grief and loss and how we carry on in its aftermath.
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City of Names by Kevin Brockmeier (2002-05-27)
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The View from the Seventh Layer Hardcover - Deckle Edge, March 18, 2008
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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The Brief History of the Dead
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Things that Fall from the Sky
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
( At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a di...)
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 party, struggles to understand why his old friends tease him at the lunch table, becomes the talk of the entire school thanks to his Halloween costume, and booby-traps his lunch to deter a thief. With the same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that are the hallmarks of his fiction, the acclaimed novelist now explores the dream of his own past and recovers the person he used to be. From the Hardcover edition.
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade by Kevin Brockmeier (2014-04-01)
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The Brief History of the Dead THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD By Brockmeier, Kevin ( Author )Feb-01-2006 Compact Disc
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City of Names
(When Howie Quackenbush receives his order from the school...)
When Howie Quackenbush receives his order from the school book club, he's expecting 101 Pickle Jokes. What he gets is a copy of The Secret Guide to North Mellwood, and something tells him his life is about to change dramatically. The guide tells him how to transport anywhere in town simply by laying his hand on a secret portal and saying his destination's true name. At first, transporting around town with his best friends is a lot of fun. But Howie is full of questions. Who sent him the book? Why? Why does every place in Mellwood have two names? And what could the mysterious Hall of Babies possibly have to do with him?
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The Brief History of the Dead (Chinese Edition)
(Besides science fiction, legend, adventure and suspense, ...)
Besides science fiction, legend, adventure and suspense, full of humanism, you can see western literary traditions through the book. It is an entertaining bestseller and a serious artistic fiction. The author leads reader transfer through life and death and the situation between the two, telling about stories of love, loss, and memory.
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The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback - March 10, 2009
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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.
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The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries)
(Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin B...)
Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier 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, antisocial woman imagines her escape into the sky with an apparition only she can see, to the haunting story of a pastor tempted by something less than divine, Brockmeier moves effortlessly from the extraordinary to the everyday, while challenging us to see the world anew. Stunning, elegant, profound, and playful, The View from the Seventh Layer cements Kevin Brockmeier's place as one of the most creative and compassionate writers of his generation.
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Kevin Brockmeier
Edit ProfileEducation
He taught at the Iowa Writers" Workshop, where he received his Master of Fine Arts in 1997, and lives in Little Rock.
Career
His short stories have been printed in numerous publications and he has published two collections of stories, two children"s novels, and two fantasy novels.
Achievements
Works
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
( At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a di...)
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The Truth About Celia
(While playing alone in her backyard one afternoon, seven-...)
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The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries)
(Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin B...)
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The Brief History of the Dead
( From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most in...)
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Grooves: A Kind of Mystery
( A quirky middle–grade novel about an enterprising seven...)
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The Brief History of the Dead (Chinese Edition)
(Besides science fiction, legend, adventure and suspense, ...)
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City of Names
(When Howie Quackenbush receives his order from the school...)
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The Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier (2004-07-13)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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The View from the Seventh Layer Hardcover - Deckle Edge, March 18, 2008
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
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The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries) Paperback - March 10, 2009
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Things That Fall From The Sky Stories Advance Reading Copy
- By Kevin Brockmeier - Things that Fall from the Sky (2003-07-23) Paperback
- The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier (2007-01-09)
- Grooves: A Kind of Mystery by Kevin Brockmeier (February 28,2006)
- City of Names by Kevin Brockmeier (2002-05-27)
- The Brief History of the Dead
- Things that Fall from the Sky
- A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade by Kevin Brockmeier (2014-04-01)
- The Brief History of the Dead THE BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEAD By Brockmeier, Kevin ( Author )Feb-01-2006 Compact Disc
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
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