

The Illumination
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 07/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Kevin Brockmeier
Narrator: Graham Rowat
Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 07/01/2011
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Kevin Brockmeier is the author of five novels for adults and two children's novels. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney's, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, among other publications. He has taught at the Iowa Writer's Workshop.
Humanity suddenly changes as emotional and physical pain begins to shine out of our bodies like light. How would a shift like that change culture? And what does it all mean? Kevin Brockmeier examines these questions through six different lives that are tied together through a diary filled with love n......more
Readers of my reviews may have noticed that I am attracted to the whimsical, the magical, the fantastic, in novels. Kevin Brockmeier surprised and startled me with his first novel, A Brief History of the Dead. I wondered how he would do that again in his second. The Illumination is another work of......more
Kevin Brockmeier has a remarkable and unique talent for writing stories that are simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking. He did it again.......more
I am conflicted about giving this book a star rating, because it was so unremarkable. Neither great nor bad, and yet the obligatory 3 stars makes it seem like I had an opinion. I'm about as tired of linked stories as I am of precocious child narrators. This book has both. The links in The Illuminati......more
The world had changed in the wake of the Illumination. No one could disguise his pain anymore. You could hardly step out in public without noticing the white blaze of someone’s impacted heel showing through her slingbacks; and over there, hailing a taxi, a woman with shimmering pressure marks where......more