# Indelible Acts

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- Book: [Indelible Acts](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/indelible-acts) ([Indelible Acts.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/indelible-acts.md))
- Authors: [A.L. Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0905-815-1
- Published: 2010-11-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.