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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip

A Memoir of Seventh Grade

by Kevin Brockmeier
Kirby Heyborne
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip follows twelve-year-old Kevin Brockmeier over the course of a single school year as he sets out in search of himself: losing old friends and gaining new ones, happening into his first kiss, writing plays and stories, dressing as Dolly Parton for Halloween, booby-trapping his lunch to deter a thief. With the same deep feeling and oddly dreamlike precision that are the hallmarks of his fiction, Brockmeier now explores the dream of his own past, recovering the person he used to be, the friends he had, the hopes he nurtured, the doubts he hid, the secrets he kept, the books he read - everything that was once his life.

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    April 15, 2014

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666591385
      • File size: 176279 KB
      • Duration: 06:07:14

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Ah, seventh grade . . . If you're brave enough to revisit that turbulent time of shifting social alliances and raging hormones, this may be the memoir for you. Narrator Kirby Heyborne portrays Kevin Brockmeier, a sensitive, imaginative, funny kid who is struggling to understand the changes taking place within himself and his friends. Heyborne's gentle and thoughtful narration complements the personality of the young Kevin, who can't seem to figure out the hows and whys of his friends' behavior as he and they seek to establish their own unique personalities somewhere between childhood and young adulthood. Heyborne also excels at capturing the mocking tones and insensitivity of Kevin's questionable friends. S.E.G. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 24, 2014
      Novelist Brockmeier (The Illumination) experiments with the memoir form as he guides readers through the 12th year of his life in this finely tuned portrait of a tween growing up in suburban Little Rock, Ark. in 1980s. Narrated in the third person, Brockmeier reflects on the sensitive kid he once was: "the kid who crie too easily" and was constantly concerned with social norms, Kevin cannot help but draw attention to himself. When Kevin is blindsided by former friends who become his teasing tormentors, he escapes into a science fiction-esque alternate universe. The confusion and anguish of the scenario is captured astutely by Brockmeier, who describes the school setting vividly with its "lockers crashing shut like cymbals," "Levis, Izods and bomber jackets," and "vending machines with their coils of chips and candy." This genre-spanning work is short on plot but bursting with eloquence, a striking slice of life aching with nostalgia. Agent: Jennifer Carlson, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.

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