The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier
The Illumination, Kevin Brockmeier
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The Illumination

Author: Kevin Brockmeier

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 9 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/01/2011


Synopsis

Author Kevin Brockmeier counts the O. Henry Prize among the many accolades his speculative fiction has earned. In The Illumination he offers "an inspiring take on suffering and the often fleeting nature of connection" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When physical pain suddenly manifests itself as shining light, the wounded nature of humanity is revealed. "This is a radiant, bewitching, and profoundly inquisitive novel of sorrow, perseverance, and wonderment."-Booklist, starred review

About Kevin Brockmeier

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on January 26, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Judy on February 08, 2011

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

Goodreads review by Lark on October 01, 2019

Kevin Brockmeier has a remarkable and unique talent for writing stories that are simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking. He did it again.......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on January 19, 2011

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

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 20, 2011

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