The Secret Lives of People in Love is an evocative debut story collection set in present day New York City, Paris, Rome and Greece. Simon Van Booy explores love's labor and love's loss with masterful simplicity and in touching detail. His prose is spare, economical and evanescent. His characters are often unbearably lonely, vulnerable and private. Their realities are so filled with memories that they seem transcendental and independent of time. Simon Van Booy's voice is reverent, haunting and profoundly humane.
Set in New England, The Secret History tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at a small, elite Vermont college, similar in many respects to Bennington College (in Bennington, Vermont) where Tartt was a student from 1982 to 1986. Tartt's tale has certain parallels with the unsolved case of Bennington art student Paula Jean Welden who vanished while hiking near the college in 1946.
PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Select secrets are then posted on the PostSecret website, or used for PostSecret's books or museum exhibits.
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I've really enjoyed your blog (I found you due to my completely not-creepy and above-board interest in Eddie Redmayne) and now you've gone and mentioned The Secret History! I love that book and recommended to so many people when I was a bookseller. Thanks for mentioning it here.
Happy New Year.
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