Indelible Acts
Author(s): A.L. Kennedy
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a crematorium funeral exposes a love gone sour; a foreign hotel room becomes a diorama of despair as physical sickness becomes a metaphor for incurable grief. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome; in A Bad Son a young boy from a damaged home searches for some kind of peace in the newly fallen snow.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : vinteb
- : 0.158
- : 01 April 2003
- : 197mm X 131mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : A.L. Kennedy
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : good
- : 272