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The Secret Lives of People in Love (P.S.) Book

The Secret Lives of People in Love : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061766121 : 0061766127 : 01 Mar 2010 : Breathtaking. . .chillingly beautiful, like postcards from Eden. ..Van Booy s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking. -Los Angeles Times In his critically-acclaimed debut collection of short stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love, Simon Van Booy explores the sway of fate and power of memory on the lives of lonely and vulnerable people. With the same spare, economical prose that he brought to his subsequent collection, Love Begins in Winter, winner of the 2009 Frank O Connor Short Story Award, Van Booy creates a profoundly humane and somber resonance with the assured hand of a first-rate storyteller (Newsday). The Secret Lives of People in Love announces the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.""Read More

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  • Product Description

    The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world.

    Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."

  • 0061766127
  • 9780061766121
  • Simon Van Booy
  • 23 February 2010
  • Harper Perennial
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
  • 1
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