# Indelible Acts

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- Authors: [A.L. Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-04-03

## Description

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.

## Editions

### Indelible Acts

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-14-0003-345-4
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2004-08-10
- Language: en_US

### Indelible Acts

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9943-348-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2003-04-03
- Language: en_GB