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The Coming And Going Of Strangers (2009)

by Simon Van Booy(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

review 1: Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord...his virginity was spiritual and that he had already lost it to someone he was yet to meet. The physical act would be nothing more than blind and fumbling reassurance that man's mortality could be celebrated with the division of spirit through flesh.
review 2: Another poetic tale by Van Booy. The story, although somewhat mundane, is spruced up with incredibly beautiful language and thought-provoking statements. His analysis of different aspects of lif... moree, love, youth, the past, the present and death is magnificently crafted into gorgeous tales of an Irish gypsy's life in a rural town in the East Coast of Ireland. I would have given this 5 stars if the plot itself were a bit more edgy or daring. As I stated, the plot can seem mundane at times but the writing is always breath-taking. less

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