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The sadness of beautiful things : stories / Simon Van Booy.

by Van Booy, Simon.

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Penguin Books, 2018.

Grief -- Fiction.

Kindness -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

9780143133049 (trade pbk)

192 p. ; 20 cm.

A sacrifice -- The green blanket -- Playing with dolls -- The pigeon -- The hitchhiker -- Not dying -- The saddest case of true love -- The doorman.

"For 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. THE SADNESS OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS is at times dark, funny, philosophical, poetic -- but always eminnently believable, and like no other voice in modern fiction."--Publishwer.

Historical fiction.

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