Indelible Acts

Author: A.L. Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Contemporary Fiction, Short Story Books
Book Format: Paperback

 

One of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993 and 2003 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.

 

About A.L. Kennedy

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 Essex.

 

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SKU BK-9780099433484
Barcode # 9780099433484
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author A.L. Kennedy
Shipping Weight 0.1600kg
Shipping Width 0.129m
Shipping Height 0.014m
Shipping Length 0.198m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.400m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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