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Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy

Indelible Acts by 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.

(Penguin Books)

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Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy

Author

A. L. Kennedy

Publisher

Vintage

Published

2003

Pages

224

Genres

Literary Fiction

Country

English Writing

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