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.
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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Format EPUB ● Pages 272 ● ISBN 9781409058151 ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2733500 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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