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.
Vorwort
Winner of the Costa Book Award, 'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph
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Vorwort
Winner of the Costa Book Award, 'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph
Autorentext
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 Essex.
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Indelible Acts
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9781409058151
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E-Book (epub)
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Herausgeber
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Adobe-DRM
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0.31 MB
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272
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