The Resource The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy
The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy
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The item The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people's 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The sadness of beautiful things : stories
- Title
- The sadness of beautiful things
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- Simon Van Booy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people's 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Van Booy, Simon
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Interpersonal relations
- Grief
- Kindness
- Label
- The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 192 p.
- Isbn
- 9780143133049
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
-
- 307880
- 888014
- Label
- The sadness of beautiful things : stories, Simon Van Booy
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 192 p.
- Isbn
- 9780143133049
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- System control number
-
- 307880
- 888014
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