Things that Fall from the Sky (Vintage Contemporaries)
- Authors
- Brockmeier, Kevin
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN
- 9780307429728
- Date
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
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 to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending.
Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, **Things That Fall from the Sky** defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.
*From the Trade Paperback edition.*