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The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories

✍ Scribed by Van Booy, Simon

Book ID: 110491198
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 595 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780525504863

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✦ Synopsis

An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.

Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to peoples stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor, to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these masterfully written tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives, but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better.

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