Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy

The twelve stories in Incredible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completionfor 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 Sona 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 bleakeness by humanity and humour - unflinching and unwavering in its scrutiny of desire and loss. This 2002 Jonathan Cape Hardback is in very good condition. DJ.

ISBN: 9780224062596 SKU: 1582447 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1582447
Location: Fiction