Indelible Acts

Indelible Acts

by A . L . Kennedy (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Apr 2003

ISBN 10: 0099433486
ISBN 13: 9780099433484
Book Overview: 'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph

Media Reviews
Brilliant... These 12 stories are among the most devastating you will read this year * Daily Telegraph *
This woman is a profound writer -- Richard Ford
An astonishing writer, with an imaginative empathy that seems to know no bounds * Time Out *
These are powerful, intimate and angry stories. Kennedy writes with flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud * Daily Mail *
The clarity, wit and descriptive intensity of (Kennedy's) style are uplifting and the collection ends on a note of fragile hope... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best * The Times *
Author Bio
A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.