Indelible Acts

By: A.L. Kennedy

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Paperback | 1 July 2003 | Edition Number 1

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224 Pages

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'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph

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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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 *

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