Everything Beautiful Began After

2011-07-05 Fiction

Author : Simon Van Booy
Release : 2011-07-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Everything Beautiful Began After written by Simon Van Booy. This book was released on 2011-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Apowerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty ofone’s own fate. This is a novel you simply must read!” —Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of Townie From Simon Van Booy, the award-winning author of Love Begins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love, comes a debut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. With echoes of Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, Van Booy’s resonant tale of three isolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is the compelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart.”

Everything Beautiful Began After

2014-04-03 Fiction

Author : Simon Van Booy
Release : 2014-04-03
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 793/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Everything Beautiful Began After written by Simon Van Booy. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Van Booy, winner of the prestigious Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, brings his gift for poetic dialogue and sumptuous imagery to thisdebut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Ancient Greece. Rebecca is young, lost and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens – trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. He has no close relationships with anyone and spends his days hunched over books or in a drunken stupor. And then there is Henry, an accomplished young Welsh archaeologist who spends his days devotedly uncovering the city’s past as a way to escape his own – a past that holds a secret that not even his doting parents can talk about. As these three lost and lonely souls wander the city, a series of chance encounters sets off events that will forever define them, in this powerful portrait of friendship and young love.

The Illusion of Separateness

2013-06-11 Fiction

Author : Simon Van Booy
Release : 2013-06-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Separateness written by Simon Van Booy. This book was released on 2013-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The uncanny beauty of Van Booy’s prose, and his ability to knife straight to the depths of a character’s heart, fill a reader with wonder.” — San Francisco Chronicle Award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells a harrowing and enchanting story of how one man’s act of mercy during World War II changed the lives of strangers, and how they each discover the astonishing truth of their connection. The characters in Van Booy's The Illusion of Separateness discover at their darkest moments of fear and isolation that they are not alone, that they were never alone, that every human being is a link in a chain we cannot see. This gripping novel—inspired by true events—tells the interwoven stories of a deformed German infantryman; a lonely British film director; a young, blind museum curator; two Jewish American newlyweds separated by war; and a caretaker at a retirement home for actors in Santa Monica. They move through the same world but fail to perceive their connections until, through seemingly random acts of selflessness, a veil is lifted to reveal the vital parts they have played in one another's lives, and the illusion of their separateness.

Pobble's Way

2010 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Simon Van Booy
Release : 2010
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 663/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Pobble's Way written by Simon Van Booy. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pobble's evening walk with her father, the forest animals gather around to wonder what the mitten that Pobble lost along the trail might be, until Pobble returns and the animals find out what its real use is.

Love Begins in Winter

2009-05-12 Fiction

Author : Simon Van Booy
Release : 2009-05-12
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Love Begins in Winter written by Simon Van Booy. This book was released on 2009-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart, and he articulates those truths in his stories with pitch-perfect elegance. Love Begins in Winter is a splendid collection, and Van Booy is now a writer on my must-always-read list.” — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitizer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain and Severance A new collection of stories from award-winning writer Simon Van Booy that explores the beauty of connection and the anguish of loss. In Love Begins in Winter, Simon Van Booy offers intimate scenes of tragic loss, redemptive tales of unlikely connection, and breathtaking moments that never really end. These stories, set around the world, are a perfect synthesis of grace, intensity, atmosphere, and compassion. From a famous French cellist who heals the heart of a lost woman to a suitor who polishes eggs, from heroic gypsies to generous gondoliers who can sing, Van Booy writes eloquently about the difficult choices we make in order to maintain our humanity.

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