

Father's Day
A Novel
Author: Simon Van Booy
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/26/2016
Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
Author: Simon Van Booy
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 6 hr 58 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/26/2016
Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
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.
This could have been a too sentimental, overly unrealistic story in a the hands of a less skilled writer but it wasn't. That's not to say that it wasn't sentimental . It was , but for me the sentimentality was just enough to get me . Perhaps the twist at the end was a bit unrealistic, but I was glad......more
A Father's Day Fable Anyone who has read Simon Van Booy's two previous novels or exquisite short stories will know his style. Short declarative sentences, with few subsidiary clauses; adjectives and adverbs serving a precise purpose or omitted entirely; few Latinate words. Not everyone will like it;......more