The Secret Lives of People in Love
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Word Count
38,750 words, Guess
Page Count
155 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8814558M
- ISBN-139781933527055
- ISBN-101933527056
- OCLC Control Number77258149
- OCLC Control Numbersecretlivesofpeo0000vanb
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006906038
- LibraryThing2505131
- Goodreads534571
Classifications
- LCCPS3602
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."
Description
"Little Birds" is narrated by a teenage boy of uncertain parentage who sketches his life with his devoted foster father, Michel, in working-class Paris: "It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life. I am walking on the Pont des Arts." In "Some Bloom in Darkness," an aging railroad station clerk's witness of a violent scene between a man and woman translates in his mind into an infatuation with a store mannequin. Other tales are set in Rome.
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