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 ● Maison d’édition Random House ● Publié 2010 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2733500 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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