Simon Van Booy has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 1 author. The most-rated is The Sadness of Beautiful Things.
Everything Beautiful Began After
Summary
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens—trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. He has no close relationships with anyone and spends his days hunched over books or wandering the city in a drunken stupor. Henry is in Athens to dig. An accomplished young archaeologist, he devotedly uncovers the city’s past as a way to escape his own, which holds a secret that not even his doting parents can talk about. And then, with a series of chance meetings, Rebecca, George, and Henry are suddenly in flight, their lives brighter and clearer than ever, as they fall headlong into a summer that will forever define them in the decades to come.
©2011 Simon Van Booy (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers
The Sadness of Beautiful Things
Summary
An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy. Over 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 listeners 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 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. “Van Booy’s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking.” (Los Angeles Times) "Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart." (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) Audiobook Table of Contents: "A Sacrifice", read by Alana Kerr Collins "The Green Blanket", read by James Fouhey "Playing with Dolls", read by Simon van Booy "The Pigeon", read by Giordan Diaz "The Hitchhiker", read by Alana Kerr Collins "Not Dying", read by Darren Burrows "The Saddest Case of True Love", read by Simon van Booy "The Doorman", read by James Fouhey
©2018 Simon Van Booy (P)2018 Penguin Audio