The Illumination
Author: Brockmeier, Kevin
ISBN: 9780099555780
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Feb 2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
From best-selling and award-winning American author Kevin Brockmeier, a novel which completely reimagines the world...
Something strange is going on.
All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'.
As this breathtaking phenomenon takes holds, a private journal of love notes passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, a lonely hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other people. Each of them will find their lives changed forever over a story which spans decades and continents, a story that shines a spectacular light on the wounds we all bear...
ISBN: 9780099555780
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Feb 2012
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
From best-selling and award-winning American author Kevin Brockmeier, a novel which completely reimagines the world...
Something strange is going on.
All over the world, pain is manifesting itself as light. Cuts and bruises blaze and flash. Arthritic joints glow. Injured troops emit radiant white shards into the desert night. On the news, they're calling it 'The Illumination'.
As this breathtaking phenomenon takes holds, a private journal of love notes passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page, a lonely hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other people. Each of them will find their lives changed forever over a story which spans decades and continents, a story that shines a spectacular light on the wounds we all bear...
