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...
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."
作者简介
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Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languag...
Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
"Lovely and genuinely touching… Van Booy' s clean, simple, delicate prose suits the material' s sadness… For all their somberness, these stories exude an abiding sweetness… These characters cling to o..."Lovely and genuinely touching… Van Booy' s clean, simple, delicate prose suits the material' s sadness… For all their somberness, these stories exude an abiding sweetness… These characters cling to optimism, even to love, despite their frailties and straitened circumstances… This talented author bears watching.”(展开)
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上海人民出版社2009版
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上海人民出版社2009版
0 有用 Aphrodite 2015-04-16 19:51:04
喜欢他的文笔
0 有用 那就暂时这样 2024-05-28 22:30:18 云南
"Lovely and genuinely touching… Van Booy' s clean, simple, delicate prose suits the material' s sadness… For all their somberness, these stories exude an abiding sweetness… These characters cling to o... "Lovely and genuinely touching… Van Booy' s clean, simple, delicate prose suits the material' s sadness… For all their somberness, these stories exude an abiding sweetness… These characters cling to optimism, even to love, despite their frailties and straitened circumstances… This talented author bears watching.” (展开)
0 有用 mslili 2019-08-19 11:06:06
Love comes in a good variety.
3 有用 手电筒好看 2015-10-03 21:01:04
Little Birds, The Reappearance of Strawberries, Where they hide Is a Mystery, No Greater Gift.
0 有用 beautifularea 2018-12-31 09:20:54
情感描写的这么细腻。