The illumination

Kevin Brockmeier

earliest edition we have, 2011 Penguin Random House, 2011 272 pages

"What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, and from there through the hands of five other people — a photojournalist, a schoolchild, a missiona...

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The Illumination paperback · 2012 · Vintage · 257 pages · 9780307387776
Illumination edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9780099555780
The illumination: A Novel edition · 2011 · Pantheon Books · 257 pages · 9780375425318
The illumination edition · 2011 · Jonathan Cape · 9780224093378
Illumination edition · 2011 · Penguin Random House · 272 pages · 9781446468586

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