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The Truth About Celia

(Vintage Contemporaries)

By Kevin Brockmeier

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| Paperback | 9780375727702

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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, Continue

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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  • The Truth About Celia By Kevin Brockmeier

    In Kevin Brockmeier's first novel, The Truth About Celia, the author uses a mixed palette of genres to paint a world where "there are worse things than being dead." In the guise of his central figure, science-fiction writer Christopher Brooks, Brockm ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 240 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0375727701
  • ISBN-13: 9780375727702
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jul 13, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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