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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 retai...more

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Published February 23rd 2010 by HarperCollins e-books (first published May 1st 2007)

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May 31, 2011 Kim Katusha added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, short-stories

Ik begin steeds meer te genieten van korte verhalen. Er was een tijd dat ik nooit korte verhalen las, laat staan een bundel. Maar toen kwam ik in aanraking met Murakami, en ik moest uiteraard al zijn boeken lezen: daar zaten verhalenbundels bij.

Sinds Alice Munro zoek ik echter zelfs verhalenbundels op. Simon van Booy was een naam die ik op verschillende blogs tegenkwam. De kaft viel op, de titel is prachtig en enkele quotes die ik tegenkwam waren te overtuigend om te kunnen negeren. Het resultaa...more Ik begin steeds meer te genieten van korte verhalen. Er was een tijd dat ik nooit korte verhalen las, laat staan een bundel. Maar toen kwam ik in aanraking met Murakami, en ik moest uiteraard al zijn boeken lezen: daar zaten verhalenbundels bij.

Sinds Alice Munro zoek ik echter zelfs verhalenbundels op. Simon van Booy was een naam die ik op verschillende blogs tegenkwam. De kaft viel op, de titel is prachtig en enkele quotes die ik tegenkwam waren te overtuigend om te kunnen negeren. Het resultaat: ik bestelde het boek, direct.

De verhalen zijn erg, erg mooi. Sommige zo triest dat je achteraf drie keer diep moet in- en uit moet ademen om bij te komen. Andere verhalen zijn juist weer heel lief, maar altijd komt het woord 'hartstocht' van pas. Altijd. Simon van Booy kan adembenemend mooi schrijven, ik wil nu alles van hem lezen: hij heeft een drietal boeken samengesteld met quotes over verschillende filosofische vraagstukken en naast The Secret Lives of People in Love staat er nog een verhalenbundel op zijn naam: Love Begins in Winter. Begin juli zal een 'normaal' boek van Simon van Booy verschijnen, Everything Beautiful Began After: a Novel.

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"We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips." (story: The World Laughs in Flowers)

"Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being." (story: The World Laughs in Flowers)

"She told me that while my father’s body might be crushed under tons of black earth, the body is nothing but camouflage. She whispered that every soul is a river trying to find its way back to the sea." (story: Conception)

"It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment." (story: Conception)

"I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful." (story: The Still but Falling World)(less)

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Jul 04, 2007 Christine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

AHHHHHH! Someone found a way to put it into words! YES!

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Jan 10, 2008 Kelly rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 21st-century

This was a very quick, easy read. I wasn't hurrying or devouring the book, and I still finished it in two days. The stories and pages slip away very easily.

I'll start off with the things I like then, hmm?: there were some stories that did work for me. I really liked "Apples," about the Russian shoemaker who plants an orchard in Brooklyn to remember his daughter. I also really liked "Snow Falls and Disappears," which deals with love's abandonment and how a man deludes himself to go on properly....more This was a very quick, easy read. I wasn't hurrying or devouring the book, and I still finished it in two days. The stories and pages slip away very easily.

I'll start off with the things I like then, hmm?: there were some stories that did work for me. I really liked "Apples," about the Russian shoemaker who plants an orchard in Brooklyn to remember his daughter. I also really liked "Snow Falls and Disappears," which deals with love's abandonment and how a man deludes himself to go on properly. There were also certain lovely turns of phrase I enjoyed (i.e: "the train grieves into the station") that would every so often pop up in paragraphs and make me smile.

Those nice things being said...: I don't know about this book. I hate to do this, but this is one of those that really screams "potential" rather than a realized product. The stories themselves are perfectly nice, lovely, sweet. But no more than that, really. Some of them were just a bit cloying and "Chicken Soup for the Soul"-y for me. I felt like I'd read about half of them before, and he was really trying to emulate a style that just didn't quite touch me. I felt many of the stories were too light, and while simple construction can be heartbreaking, I just didn't feel it. There was a little too much cliche, a lot of really tired metaphors, a little too much cloy, a little too many repetitions of expression, and I don't think his writing level was consistent either. A really quality story would be followed by a throw away awful one. I just think most of these stories are the kind a professor would hand back and write with red pen across the top: "You're almost there, just a little bit more."

I also really wasn't sure about the author's message here. He seems to focus almost exclusively on love lost, love dead, love of ghosts and in one case, inanimate objects. Love lost always takes precedence over what happiness may be offered to the character, or what love they mention they have in the present. The joys of love /now/ are glossed over in favor of the endless and repeated descriptions of love that destroys people. In a book entitled "The Secret Lives of People in Love," I just expected a bit more variety of perspective, rather than "The Secret Lives of People Who Were In Love/Are In Love With Dead/Vacant Things." Also, really... did everyone have to get in some tragic accident or have some horrible illness that we spent half the story recounting? Come on now. You can do better than that. I think he could have found more and different kinds of stories than he did.

It just wasn't enough for me overall. Good idea though, Simon Van Booy.

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Feb 21, 2008 Taylor rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: lovers

Shelves: fiction, own, the-power-of-love

An incredibly moving and touching collection of short stories, all about different kinds of love and its being tested.

Usually a story will incorporate several kinds of love - friendship, family, romance, and compare the two.

A rather large number of the stories show love overcoming some sort of obstacle - death, illness, etc., but somehow the tragedies that are at the heart of some of the shorts become more hopeful in the context of the love that supports and consoles them.

I actually cried quite...more

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Aug 30, 2007 Minnie Romanovich rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Rarely have I found a book that begs to be read and re-read, and then read all over again. But, this one does just that.

It is almost like a fine wine... you inhale (it) gently, swirl it around just a bit to observe its delicate colours, and then take the first tentative sip. With each sip, it becomes sweeter and lingers longer in your mouth.

Do read this book. If nothing else, it will make you pause and appreciate the tenderness and beauty of simple moments, and acknowledge that often-abused emot...more

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May 16, 2010 Derek Emerson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-books-read

I was so taken by Simon Van Booy's Love Begins in Winter that I decided to go to his first collection of stories, The Secret Lives of People in Love. As you can see, Van Booy likes love, which says quite a bit in today's world. This collection garnered praise and gathered fans, but it lacks the consistent strength of Winter. Many of these stories sound like an MFA student getting their bearings straight, and indeed Van Booy says that is when he wrote many of these (and won some awards). Some sou...more

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Apr 15, 2013 Finola rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Ok so this book literally changed my life! My boyfriend picked it when we were in The Strand in NYC because of the amazingly cute title and when he opened to a random page and started reading a random sentence I fell in love all over again, with him and the book!
This is the best book I have ever read in my lil life! Seriously, I read a section from it every day and will hopefully until I leave this place. I am completely and unequivocally in love with Mr. Booy's writing and if a book could be my...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Vishy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I discovered Simon Van Booy’s ‘The Secret Lives of People In Love’ through a review of the book that I read. Reviewers raved about the book and it left an impression with me. I remembered it suddenly a few weeks back and so thought I will get his books – there are just three of them – and read them. This is the first of his books that I read.

‘The Secret Lives of People in Love’ is a collection of nineteen short stories. Most of them are about love and loss, sometimes about love regained. But mos...more

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Dec 24, 2012 N. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The first time I read The Secret Lives of People in Love (a collection of short stories) was in 2007. It was a small-press release and Simon didn't yet have an agent. A review in the L.A. Times changed all that. I think it's notable that I rated it 3.5/5 when I first read the book, even though I gushed about it and told everyone I knew that Simon Van Booy was brilliant and a name to watch. The initially low rating had to do with the fact that I had favorite stories and there were a couple I disl...more

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Oct 15, 2011 Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I do not read many collections of short stories but this book was one of the most hauntingly beautiful books I have ever read. The stories in this collection are about love.... love between parents and children, between lovers,spouses and the love of families. Some stories are about the exuberance of love and some are about the agonizing rawness of love that is lost. But all of these stories are written so beautifully that even though I finished the book yesterday, I spent time today going back...more

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May 13, 2010 Kari rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories

The Secret Lives of People in Love—the very title of this book drew me to it. It's the first short story collection of author Simon Van Booy. His stories all have one thing in common, and in case you couldn't figure it out by the title, yes, it's love. He writes about love between friends, between strangers, between couples, between parent and child. And the stories are set all over the place—New York, Paris, Kentucky (random choice, I agree).

I don't read too many story collections; I think the...more The Secret Lives of People in Love—the very title of this book drew me to it. It's the first short story collection of author Simon Van Booy. His stories all have one thing in common, and in case you couldn't figure it out by the title, yes, it's love. He writes about love between friends, between strangers, between couples, between parent and child. And the stories are set all over the place—New York, Paris, Kentucky (random choice, I agree).

I don't read too many story collections; I think the only others I have read lately have been by Jill McCorkle (and you know my love for her). As far as this one goes, I found the stories to be either hit or miss. A couple of them really stuck with me, and some of them I can't even remember now. "As Much Below as Up Above" was the most memorable to me. It's about an ex-serviceman in the Russian Navy who, by the luck of the draw, avoided the tragic accident that took the lives of his crewmen. Another favorite is titled "Where They Hide is a Mystery" and about a boy who finds consolation from a stranger in Central Park after his mother's death. I kept waiting for the happy love story that ends happily ever after about the passionate couple that can't live without each other. But, it never came.

It's not that Van Booy's stories are dark; they just always have a catch—something that causes a little pain and spoils the perfect ending (with the exception of maybe one or two). In this regard, I guess they're very real, and I never felt like the stories were repeating themselves. The author created a lot of unique scenarios. [Though, I caught him using the phrase "saddest-happiest day" in more than one story!:] Van Booy writes a lot of those one-liners that beg to be underlined while reading because they're poignant and perfectly describe the emotion. Phrases like:

"...I would randomly take pictures of nothing in particular. How else could you record life as it happens." —Little Birds, p. 2
"It had bent slightly by supporting her. It was crooked with the weight of her love." —Where They Hide is a Mystery, p. 31
"I've lived so long without the pain of language. My life is a letter with no address." — Distant Ships, p. 67

My advice to you: don't rush through these. [I tried not to but when you're stuck indoors avoiding a monsoon of pollen and have only one book to read, it's hard to resist turning pages.:] After a while, the poetic language takes a turn towards trite, and I think these stories are intended to be moments beautifully captured, enjoyed individually and over and over again. Take your time and you'll get a lot more out of it.(less)

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Sep 02, 2012 Jacqueline Trumbull rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Some of these stories, particularly in the first half, I thought were beautifully written with an occasional exquisite sentence. There was an after effect of... reaffirmation of life, contentment, whatever. But the stories started to irritate me after a while because they aimed more for profound characters and storylines instead of connection. That's a classic recipe for cliche. If he had told stories about ordinary people that we all are or know, and left out the catchy Russian war disaster, my...more

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Sep 02, 2007 Miriam rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this collection of mostly quite short stories. Lyrical prose - he's won some poetry award and his style reflects that, but also understated - if that makes sense as a descriptor - which makes the emotional impact of some of the stories stronger for me because they all have this quietness and calm about them.

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Oct 17, 2007 Andi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone

Shelves: shortstories

This book is simply breathtaking. It's a collection of short stories about regular people with mostly ordinary lives. Somehow Van Booy makes every simple detail come to live with his poetic writing and astute observations. If you read no other short stories this year, please give this book a go.

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Nov 21, 2011 Adriana rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of those books that makes me with I could give more than 5 starts, because 5 stars just aren't enough! I loved these stories so much! They are gorgeous. I found myself wanting to flag beautiful lines on almost every page. In my opinion, this collection was even better than Everything Beautiful Began After. The stories were more delicate, and while they were all so different, they added up to something larger and coherent in its voice and atmosphere.

I read the P.S. edition, which incl...more

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May 12, 2010 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-reviewers-copy, fiction, signed-by-author

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The Secret Lives of People in Love is a quick read, coming in just shy of 200 pages. But do not allow it's length to underwhelm you. Simon Van Booy manages to squeeze an insane amount of love, loss, grief, and heartbreak into each and every one of his short stories.

A few that caught my heart and gave it a little tug:

The Reappearance of Strawberries walks in on a dying man in a hospital who requests a bowl of strawberries. Though he cannot eat them, he struggles to breathe in t...more

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Dec 11, 2008 sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have to admit I'm only halfway through this book of short stories, but I'm very jealous of young Simon's writing style. He turns out some of the most beautiful metaphors I have ever come across, one after another, like a little metaphor farm. If I only gave it four stars it's because on principle I feel a bit sheepish handing out five stars to something that is so sentimental (i read an interview with him where he confessed that he knows a story is finished when it makes him cry...ugh, serious...more

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Apr 13, 2011 Lolly LKH rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

Absolutely beautiful and moving. I am not usually much of a short story enthusiast, I am more anti-short stories but this author could very well convert me. I admittedly felt a lump in my throat some of the time, and that doesn't usually happen to me with books. I really hope Van Booy writes a novel. Someone called this novel breathtaking and it isn't an exaggeration, it stole my breath. I am in love with this book. Every story grabs you, and the people were so real to me. I just love the first...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Whitney V. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had read Simon's first collection of short stories and was thrilled to find out that he had another. At first, I was cautious that this collection would not live up to his last. But I was pleased to find that he had not lost his touch. There are some books that you have to put down because you don't want to rush them. You don't want them to end. This was more than just that. I found myself putting this down because I was left breathless, because the stories themselves were beautiful pieces of...more

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Nov 25, 2008 Josh rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I approached the concierge desk at the Beverly Hills Hotel in search of a book. The fine gentleman disappeared momentarily and returned with this book stating "it's all we got." At first I was highly suspect, thinking that this book would better suit a lonely middle-aged woman who hasn't had sex in a couple decades. To my surprise, however, it was an enjoyable read that focused not only on love, but other phenomenons that brighten human nature. Some of the stories are sad and full of longing and...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This collection of short stories was breathtaking. The language is beautiful, each story shines on its own, yet there is a wonderful continuity from one to the next. I find that in a lot of short story collections it's like being jarred when you move on, but these stories seem almost tied together through the theme of love. The characters are round and life-like, each with their own established voice. The relationships and types of love portrayed throughout the book are varied, engaging, and oft...more

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May 11, 2012 Matthew Vandegrift rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was a beautifully written book overall. The descriptions are some of the best that I've ever read. The way that Booy describes simple things such as raindrops and steam are incredible and original. He writes with the voice of a poet. I gave it a 3 star though because I wasn't a big fan of the endings of his stories. At the end of every story, after several pages of beautiful poetic descriptions and lyrical writing, I was unsatisfied. Although there should be a theme to a book of short stori...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Hannah Courtright rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, short-stories, 2013-reads, e-dingus-2013

The Secret Lives of People in Love is a collection of nineteen short stories. Each story paints love in a different way. In French Artist Killed in Sunday's Earthquake, the woman trapped under the rubble does not think of her death as it is coming, but of the small moments of her life that made up love: her grandmother's shoes, a glass of milk, morning light behind the curtain. "she was not so much aware that she was dying as she was that she was alive."

In each story, Van Booy sprinkles beautifu...more

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May 14, 2010 NerdGirlBlogger rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy is a superbly crafted collection of short stories set in Paris, Rome, Greece, New York, and Kentucky. This novel is an achingly beautiful study in loss, grief, and isolation and the harrowing process of either finding or remembering one’s true love in the midst of overwhelming pain. It has been a long time since I’ve read a collection of short stories, possibly since my college english days. I’m so glad that I accepted this ARC, because this b...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Ti rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-summer-reading-list, books-sent-to-me

The Short of It:

Lovely and quiet.

The Rest of It:

This collection of short stories was sent to me some time ago. I can remember the day clearly. It arrived, I plunked myself down to read the first story, sighed and then placed the book on my nightstand. You might think it odd, but for me, it was the perfect reaction. The writing in that first story blew me away. I think I was a little bit awestruck and needed to take some time to process the beauty of the words themselves.

What happened next was od...more

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Sep 16, 2008 Kristen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: shortstories, alltimefavorites

I read this book as part of the Dangerous Reading Challenge
(http://dangerouslychallenge.blogspot....) and I thought I would read a couple stories yesterday and scatter the rest throughout the month. But! I started reading and could. not. stop. Seriously. I couldn't. I stayed up way past my bedtime and read all the stories last night. The whole time I was moving toward the end, I was begging myself to stop and savor all the stories. I devoured it all while wanting it to never end. This collectio...more I read this book as part of the Dangerous Reading Challenge
(http://dangerouslychallenge.blogspot....) and I thought I would read a couple stories yesterday and scatter the rest throughout the month. But! I started reading and could. not. stop. Seriously. I couldn't. I stayed up way past my bedtime and read all the stories last night. The whole time I was moving toward the end, I was begging myself to stop and savor all the stories. I devoured it all while wanting it to never end. This collection of short stories is fantastic. FANTASTIC. It is both romantic and bleak--often times both in the same story. The language choices are always appropriate and moving. Characters perfectly developed. And the flow between stories could not have been more smooth. I wish I could type in all the gems in this book but I'd be typing the entire collection.

Here is a sample of Van Booy's fantastic style:

A filthy homeless man is squatting with the American tourists and telling jokes in broken English. He is not looking at the girls' shaved legs but at the unfinished bottle of wine and sullen wedge of cheese. The Americans seem good-natured and pretend to laugh; I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

We walk arm in arm through twilight. Paris never gets too dark, because when natural light dissolves, you're never too far from a street lamp--and they're often beautiful--set upon tall black stalks, each lamp a glowing pair of white balls in love with its very own length of street. Sometimes, they all flicker to life at the same time, as if together they can hold off darkness.

Some daydreams seemed to want to swallow him up for good. Like wild horses, they would follow him in the day and then wander the plains of his dream life, but always upon him--until he would barely remember his own name.

Gabriel wonders how many people occupy one seat in a day, and if the seat could record the thoughts of the occupants, what it would say about human beings.(less)

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Mar 18, 2009 Suzanne Lagasa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: short-stories

I loved this book. It's more blatantly sentimental than Richard Bausch, and lacks the any of Raymond Carver's cool darkeness, but I still loved it. I picked it up at McNally Jackson in NY and the bookseller warned me that it was a like a box of truffles, you only want to eat one at a time. She was right, they are sweet and should not be enjoyed consecutively. I was glad I didn't let the author photo keep me from me bying it.

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Apr 17, 2008 Katie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite, book-clubbers

This was one of the best books I've read in the past year, and I loved everything about it! Collection of absolutely beautiful and touching short stories: Van Booy uses provacative metaphors, intricate language, prose like poetry. His descriptions and use of imagery pulled me into a whirlwind of emotions where I found myself becoming connected to the characters involved. He has an ability as a writer to turn seemingly simple gestures and most excruciating tragedies into experiences and feelings...more

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May 04, 2012 Caley rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Perfectly complete, delicate, and emotionally jarring, The Secret Lives of People in Love is absolutely awe-inspiring. Van Booy makes short story telling look easy. The stories in this collection are compellingly lucid and gentle, delivering a punch straight to the heart. I want to read it all over again just to experience the clarity of each story, a clarity achieved with so few words. I loved this collection. Read it!

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Mar 28, 2011 Nick Duretta rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Beautiful, haunting stories that show the beauty of love in all its forms. Some of these spare, finely realized tales are melancholy, others are joyous. Van Booy's prose approaches poetry in many places. I found myself underlining certain lines to remember them, such as "It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them." These are the kinds of stories you want to come back to again.

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Simon Van Booy was born in London and grew up in rural Wales and Oxford. After playing football in Kentucky, he lived in Paris and Athens. In 2002 he was awarded an MFA and won the H.R. Hays Poetry Prize. His journalism has appeared in magazines and newspapers including the New York Times and the New York Post. Van Booy is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, now translated into sever...more

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