Everything Beautiful Began After - Softcover

Van Booy, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061661481 ISBN 13: 9780061661488

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Van Booy Simon

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Críticas:

"A swift and engaging story..."--Wall Street Journal

"His prose is music, and his characters are warmhearted, gentle, bemused, philosophical beings....It's as if Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 30 has unfolded into a full-blown novel."--Austin Ratner, The East Hampton Star

"Van Booy's writing rings with the proverbial pithiness of Oscar Wilde, the elegance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the clarity of Graham Greene and the wit of Evelyn Waugh, conjuring a strong voice full of poetic, timeless grace of which much of the contemporary literary scene is starved."--San Francisco Examiner

"Van Booy's writing seduces from the first page....He is a hugely gifted writer. More vitally, he has something to say."--Portland Press Herald

"There is...an integrity to [Van Booy's] vision and a haunting element in his portrait of friendship and, ultimately, resolution."--Daily Mail (London)

"[T]he exquisite prose and heartbreaking (but never hopeless) emotional honesty make it a worthy read."--Daily Candy

"Vivid and meticulous...the floweriness of his prose is skillfully balanced by his short, precise sentences. Intriguing."--Metro (London)

"Atmospheric and anchored in its place. A book that is timeless but not rootless. Everything Beautiful Began After is highly sophisticated and absolutely sincere."--Irish Times

"How lovely to encounter a grownup romantic in Simon Van Booy....[He] is a lovely writer, and Everything Beautiful Began After is a kind book."--Open Letters Monthly

"Beautifully written, touchingly told, Van Booy radiates pain, fears, love and freedom on every page of this book."--Passport

Reseña del editor:

“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

FromSimon Van Booy, the award-winning author of LoveBegins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love, comesadebut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. Withechoes of Nicole Krauss’sThe History of Love and CharlesBaxter’s The Feast of Love, Van Booy’sresonant taleof threeisolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is thecompelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of RobertOlen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofA Good Scent from a StrangeMountain, “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of thehuman heart.”

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061661481
• ISBN 13: 9780061661488
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416