Everything Beautiful Began After
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781908238153 (1908238151)
Publisher: Beautiful Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Art,
Contemporary,
Greece
3.5
3.5
This is Van Booy's first novel after two excellent short story collections. While it starts strong, a daring change in the plot (no spoilers here!) fails to carry the momentum and the books disintegrates about 3/4 of the way through. Van Booy is a rare writer who seems to have hope for humanity, des...
This book had two rare distinctions for me: 1. only fiction book in which I highlighted lots passages that really struck me; 2. only book I have disliked in the middle only to find out that all the uncomfortable stuff was necessary to a good ending.The book begins a little like a French novel, or Tr...
Another staggeringly delicious read, another review where I'm fumbling for the words to express how much I loved this book.In terms of plot, there's not much, technically: three young ex-pats meet in Athens, each hiding from a secret, hungry to loved. At the start, I was briefly apprehensive this w...
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