Indelible Acts

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.

Title - Indelible Acts

Edition -

Author - A.L. Kennedy

ISBN 13 - 9780099433484

Imprint - Vintage

Publisher - Vintage Publishing

Date Published - 03/04/2003

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 14mm

Weight - 160 g

Languages - English