The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries)

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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. COVER......Page 1 ALSO BY KEVIN BROCKMEIER......Page 4 TITLE PAGE......Page 7 COPYRIGHT......Page 8 DEDICATION......Page 9 CONTENTS......Page 11 CHAPTER ONE......Page 15 CHAPTER TWO......Page 23 CHAPTER THREE......Page 51 CHAPTER FOUR......Page 73 CHAPTER FIVE......Page 91 CHAPTER SIX......Page 99 CHAPTER SEVEN......Page 122 CHAPTER EIGHT......Page 188 CHAPTER NINE......Page 212 CHAPTER TEN......Page 218 CHAPTER ELEVEN......Page 243 CHAPTER TWELVE......Page 255 CHAPTER THIRTEEN......Page 272 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 281 ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 283 NOTE ON THE TYPE......Page 285