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

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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

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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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. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome;
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'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099433484
Publisert
2003
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

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.