Kevin McIlvoy

• Dec-1981
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• Apr-1988
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In The Fifth Station, Matthew, the youngest of three brothers, has died at nineteen, inside a foundry smokestack in Illinois. The surviving brothers take their grief and misfortune to the desert landscape of New Mexico. There, one brother indulges th...

• Jan-1991
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The dramatic story of Peg O'Crerieh, a woman desperately trying to rebuild her life, reveals the various roles she assumes--wife, mother, teacher, and patient-- as she tries to make sense of her past and future. By the author of Hyssop. Repri...

• Oct-1999
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Kevin McIlvoy's Hyssop is a remarkable novel filled with kindness, truth, and magic--a story that celebrates friendship and love while exploring the complexities of a simple faith that enriches materially impoverished lives. It is a gorgeous patch...

• Feb-2005
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"Compelling and complex . . . Strange and wonderful." -- The New York Times Book Review, in praise of McIlvoy's previous fictionI am going to write about the state of New Mexico and put in some maps and stuff from the encyclopedia. My theme is the D...

• Sep-2017
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A hybrid collection comprised of short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems, the works in 57 Octaves Below Middle C enact the dilemma of self-forgetting. This book is for any reader who hears the states of dissonance that are disturbing and natura...

• Sep-2018
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Samantha Peabody, a seasoned bio-acoustician and eccentric recluse living in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest, recalls in this journal-like novel her year with two children who accompanied her in a "Sonic Adventure Program," deep in the woods....

• May-2021
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Fiction. Based loosely on a tragic real-life incident in 2014; ONE KIND FAVOR explores the consequences of the lynching of a young black man in rural North Carolina. After the lynching of Lincoln Lennox is discovered and subsequently covered up in th...

• Nov-2023
• / Literary
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Is It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, & Found Novels, the last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, showcases his artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales and the very short form-writing that thriv...