Father's Day (22 page)
Authors: Simon Van Booy
T
HE AUTHOR WISHES
to acknowledge the following people:
Wes Anderson; Tina Andreadis; Amy Baker; Betty; Vimi Bhatia; Elona, Tammy and Joshua Bodwell; Bryan Le Boeuf; my dear brother, Darren Booy, and his wife, Raha; Joan and Stephen Booy; Theodore Bouloukos; Catrin Brace and the Welsh Assembly Government; Ken Browar; Dr. Elissa Brown and Lois Oliveira of the Child HELP Partnership; David Bruson; Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni; Jonathan Burnham; Li Chow; Maria Christodoulou; Scott and Liz Cohen; Denise and James Connelly; Rejean Daigneault; Cynthia and Justin Ellis; Wolfgang Egger; Dr. Shilpi Epstein; Laurie Fink; Foxy; Dani Gill; Dr. Bruce Gelb; Gaia Grossi; Jen Hart; Dolores Henry; Gregory Henry; James Hetfield and Metallica; Nancy Horner; Mr. Howard; Professor Huang; Jig; Carlos Juarbe; David Kaplan Martial Arts; Hilary Knight; Evelyn Lehman; Mike Leigh; Sam Levinson; Filippino Lippi; Michael and Delphine Matkin; Dorit Matthews; Megatronis; Erfan Mojib; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morris III; Michael Morrison; Lukas Ortiz; Deborah Ory; Murat Oztaskin; Wendy and Jon Paton; Bronson Pinchot; Jonathan D. Rabinowitz; Ashwin Rattan; Tamara Rawitt; Rob; Sepultura; Lori and Ted Schultz; Alexis Shanley; Lisa Sharkey; Ivan Shaw and Lisa Von Weise Shaw; Dmitri Shostakovich; Stop & Shop supermarkets; the coaches and staff at UFC Gym, New Hyde Park; Rebecca Torrey; Tuesday; Joseph Mallord William Turner;
Violet; Virginia Stanley; Jeremy Strong; Gloria Vanderbilt; the Vilcek Foundation; Waldorf Astoria Hotels; Mojo Wang; Barbara Wersba; Sylvia Beach Whitman at Shakespeare & Company; Carol Zeitz, Ph.D.; Georgi and Sveta Zhikharev.
Special thanks to those guardians of story: librarians.
T
HE AMAZING INDIVIDUALS
at Conville & Walsh: Jake Smith-Bosanquet, Alexander Cochran, Tracy England, Emma Finn, Alexandra McNicoll, and Dorcas Rogers.
E
XTRA SPECIAL THANKS
to my editor and friend, Laura Brown, for her editorial grace, integrity, and calm intelligence.
M
Y DEVOTED AND
charming publicist, Rachel Elinsky; the incomparable Tom Hopke Jr.; and a special thank you to Cal Morgan, without whom, this book would not have been completed.
F
OR CLOSE FRIENDSHIP,
long walks from Mumbles to Kent Street, and poetry, Lucas Hunt.
F
OR CLOSE FRIENDSHIP,
strange humor, adventures on Jermyn Street, and three-hour lunches at the Wolseley, Carrie Kania (also my literary agent).
F
INALLY,
I
WOULD
like to express my deepest gratitude to Christina Daigneault and our talented, brilliant daughter, Madeleine Van Booy, for sharing their lives with me, and opening up new realms of happiness through our ongoing adventures in both the extraordinary and the everyday.
SIMON VAN BOOY
is the author of six books, including
The Secret Lives of People in Love
,
Tales of Accidental Genius
, and
The Illusion of Separateness
, a national bestseller. Also the editor of three philosophy books, he has written for the
New York Times
, the
Guardian
, the
Financial Times
,
Elle Men
(China), National Public Radio, and the BBC. His fiction has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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FICTION
The Secret Lives of People in Love
Everything Beautiful Began After
NONFICTION
Why We Fight
Why Our Decisions Don't Matter
Why We Need Love
PLAYS
Hindsight
COVER PHOTOGRAPHS: © IMAGE SOURCE / GETTY IMAGES; © ALIN DRAGULIN / ALAMY (JEANS DETAIL)
IMAGE IN CHAPTER XXXII BY MADELEINE VAN BOOY
FATHER'S DAY
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FIRST EDITION
ISBN: 978-0-06-240894-5
EPub Edition April 2016 ISBN 9780062408969
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