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What is Indelible Acts about?

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 Turns To 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. Each Story In This Mesmeric New Collection Is An Epiphany, A Revelation: Eloquent, Excoriating - Saved From Bleakness By Humanity And Humour - Unflinching And Unwavering In Its Scrutiny Of Desire And Loss.--book Jacket. Spared -- Awaiting An Adverse Reaction -- An Immaculate Man -- Not Anything To Do With Love -- A Bad Son -- Touch Positive -- Indelible Acts -- Elsewhere -- White House At Night -- A Wrong Thing -- A Little Like Light -- How To Find You Way In The Woods. A.l. Kennedy.

Author

Alison Louise Kennedy

Publisher

London: Jonathan Cape

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780224062596

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.59 / 5 (130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14