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The Secret Lives of People in Love
Simon Van Booy
#UB5042
Paperback, 155 pages; 2007
$7.90
Years ago, they were engaged to be married, but one day he left. He forgot why he had left long before he realized that she could not be forgotten, that the boundary of their intimacy was impossible to cross.
Simon Van Booy's worldly-wise, poetic voice delivers crushingly beautiful short fiction. The stories are set all over the world, and many kinds of love are explored—there's a sense that the varieties of the emotion are infinite, the power inexhaustible. I had to be careful where I chose to read this book, as tears were guaranteed. Graceful, tender, and intensely compelling, The Secret Lives of People in Love exposes the exquisite and heartbreaking sublimity of being human.
(CH)
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