A keen rugby player, he was recruited to play football for Campbellsville University in Kentucky. 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.īorn in London, Simon Van Booy grew up in Wales.
Love, loss, frailty, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy’s themes. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of grace, intensity, atmosphere, and compassion. The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award winning writer Simon Van Booy. Taste, touch, smell, sight and sound, in spite of their evanescence, are frozen for a moment in these stories and celebrated, along with their subtle interconnection, in all the aspects of love.’ Fred Volkmer They stay with you like a significant memory.’ Roger Rosenblatt ‘Simon Van Booy’s stories have the power and resonance of poems.
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