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Title: Presence of Absence
Author: Simon Van Booy
ISBN: 9781567927443
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 184
Publisher Description: <p><b>"Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder."-<i>Washington Post</i></b> <p/><b>"Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful."--<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle, Best Fiction of the Year</i></b></b> <p/><br>As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best. <p/> <p/>"Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b>. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on his beloved wife, he realizes, "Life doesn't start when you're born . . . it begins when you commit yourself to the eventual devastating loss that results from connecting to another person." <p/> <p/>Infused with poetic clarity and graced with humor, Simon Van Booy's innovative novella asks the reader to find beauty--even gratitude--in the cycle of birth and death. Stripped of artifice, <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b> is a meditation between the writer and the reader, an imaginative work that challenges the deceit of written words and explores our strongest emotions. <p/> <p/>Simon Van Booy is not only a master storyteller but a writer whose fiction is rich with philosophical insights into things both mapped and undiscovered. <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b> parts the darkness to reveal what has been just out of sight all along.</p> <p/><br>
Author: Simon Van Booy
ISBN: 9781567927443
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 184
Publisher Description: <p><b>"Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder."-<i>Washington Post</i></b> <p/><b>"Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful."--<b><i>San Francisco Chronicle, Best Fiction of the Year</i></b></b> <p/><br>As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best. <p/> <p/>"Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b>. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on his beloved wife, he realizes, "Life doesn't start when you're born . . . it begins when you commit yourself to the eventual devastating loss that results from connecting to another person." <p/> <p/>Infused with poetic clarity and graced with humor, Simon Van Booy's innovative novella asks the reader to find beauty--even gratitude--in the cycle of birth and death. Stripped of artifice, <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b> is a meditation between the writer and the reader, an imaginative work that challenges the deceit of written words and explores our strongest emotions. <p/> <p/>Simon Van Booy is not only a master storyteller but a writer whose fiction is rich with philosophical insights into things both mapped and undiscovered. <b><i>The Presence of Absence</i></b> parts the darkness to reveal what has been just out of sight all along.</p> <p/><br>
