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    Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
    Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
    Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
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    Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love

    By Simon Van Booy

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    The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. 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.

    Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 23, 2010
    ISBN9780062002020
    Some Bloom in Darkness: A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love
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    Simon Van Booy

    Simon Van Booy is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, including The Secret Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three philosophy books and has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC. His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.

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      Some Bloom in Darkness - Simon Van Booy

      Some Bloom in Darkness

      A short story from The Secret Lives of People in Love

      Simon Van Booy

      To Maddie

      Contents

      Begin Reading

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Praise

      Credits

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      SOME BLOOM IN DARKNESS

      for Eugène Atget and Erik Satie

      Since witnessing a violent incident at the railway station some months earlier, Saboné had not sketched a thing. He had not sketched the pigeons that dripped from the ledges of the Museum, nor had he shuffled through the Museum, where he liked to sit and watch people rather than paintings. Since bearing witness to the violent incident some months earlier, Saboné often became breathless with anxiety, as though he were the perpetrator of a terrible crime that he could not recall.

      Saboné found a genuine pleasure in small things. He had lived with his mother in an unpretentious suburb of Paris until one day she died, and Saboné thought it best to move and make a fresh start. Since then, he

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