Indelible Acts - Softcover

A. L. Kennedy,A L Kennedy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099433486 ISBN 13: 9780099433484

Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.

Review:

"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 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0099433486
• ISBN 13: 9780099433484
• Binding: Paperback