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Indelible acts : stories / A.L. Kennedy.
LIBRA - Special PR6061.E5952 I54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, A. L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction, English.
- Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- The love story (as well as the story of love lost, obsessed over, or longed for) gets a complete and thrilling renovation at the hands of the most virtuosic literary stylist to appear in the British Isles since Jeanette Winterson. A. L. Kennedy's men and women huddle in foreign hotel rooms, immobilized by travel-sickness and betrayal. They plan seductions on the line at a cheese shop. They're undone by a passing embrace in the office men's room. Their passion is so urgent and imperious that it invades the stories they tell their children. By turns chaste and ferociously sexy, funny and unbearably sad, every story in Indelible Acts" "is a testament to the lengths to which desire drives us. And all are marked by Kennedy's wisdom and humanity, and language that captures the briefest tremor of the infatuated heart.
- Contents:
- Spared
- Awaiting an adverse reaction
- An immaculate man
- Not anything to do with love
- A bad son
- Touch positive
- Indelible acts
- Elsewhere
- White house at night
- A wrong thing
- A little like light
- How to find your way in woods.
- ISBN:
- 1400033454
- 9781400033454
- OCLC:
- 56339306
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