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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Indelible Acts
• Author: A L Kennedy
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099433484
• ISBN: 0099433486
• ID: 04016520
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 133 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. April 2003

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