“I fell in love… remind[s] me of the potential of literature… It is a novel that could only be written by one person, at one particular time… the most ‘alive’ book I’ve read this year.” -- John Warner, The Chicago Tribune A beautiful and compulsively readable literary debut A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall introduces Owen Burr—an Olympian whose dreams of greatness are dashed and then transformed by an epic journey—and his father, Professor Joseph Burr, who must travel the world to find his son. After his athletic career ends abruptly, Owen flees the country to become an artist. He lands in Berlin where he meets a group of art monsters living in the Teutonic equivalent of Warhol’s Factory. After his son’s abrupt disappearance, Burr dusts off his more speculative ideas in a last-ditch effort to command both Owen’s and the world's attention.   A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall  offers a persuasive vision of faith, ambition, art, family, and the myths we write for ourselves.