From the acclaimed Scottish writer A. L. Kennedy (“If you are at all interested in contemporary fiction, this is work you must not miss”—Richard Ford; “A world-class fiction writer”—Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review), a brilliant short-story collection—her first to be published in this country—about adultery and sexual obsession.
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing. A line outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a funeral exposes a love gone sour; a scene of sickness and despair in a foreign hotel room becomes a metaphor for incurable grief. In “A Bad Son,” a young boy from a damaged home searches for peace, risking his life on a snowy hill. In the title story, two lovers confront their lust amid the ruins of Rome.
Each piece in A. L. Kennedy’s mesmerizing collection is an eloquent, excoriating revelation, saved from bleakness by the humanity and humor of the author’s unrelenting wit and by her unwavering scrutiny of desire and loss. Her characters’ lives are dashed, impassioned, each in his or her own way immolated by hope and by the unassuageable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love.
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing. A line outside a cheese shop leads to a thrilling infidelity; a funeral exposes a love gone sour; a scene of sickness and despair in a foreign hotel room becomes a metaphor for incurable grief. In “A Bad Son,” a young boy from a damaged home searches for peace, risking his life on a snowy hill. In the title story, two lovers confront their lust amid the ruins of Rome.
Each piece in A. L. Kennedy’s mesmerizing collection is an eloquent, excoriating revelation, saved from bleakness by the humanity and humor of the author’s unrelenting wit and by her unwavering scrutiny of desire and loss. Her characters’ lives are dashed, impassioned, each in his or her own way immolated by hope and by the unassuageable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love.
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Hardback Editions
May 2003 : Hardback
| Title: Indelible Acts Author(s): A. L. Kennedy ISBN: 1-4000-4055-8 / 978-1-4000-4055-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2002 : Hardback
| Title: Indelible Acts Author(s): A.L. Kennedy ISBN: 0-224-06259-X / 978-0-224-06259-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Indelible Acts: Stories Author(s): A.L. Kennedy ISBN: 1-4000-3345-4 / 978-1-4000-3345-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2003 : Paperback
| Title: Indelible Acts Author(s): A.L. Kennedy ISBN: 0-09-943348-6 / 978-0-09-943348-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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