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Indelible Acts

Stories

Stories

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

By A. L. Kennedy

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Short Stories

Category: Short Stories

Paperback $12.00

Aug 10, 2004 | ISBN 9781400033454

Ebook $8.99

Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307426390

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    About Indelible Acts

    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.

    About Indelible Acts

    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.

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    About A. L. Kennedy

    A. L. Kennedy has published six novels, two books of nonfiction, and three previous collections of short stories. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes, including the Costa… More about A. L. Kennedy

    About A. L. Kennedy

    A. L. Kennedy has published six novels, two books of nonfiction, and three previous collections of short stories. She has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists and has won a number of prizes, including the Costa… More about A. L. Kennedy

    Product Details

    Category: Short Stories

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 10, 2004 | 208 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400033454

    Category: Short Stories

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780307426390

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    Praise

    “The best stories here are exacting in tone and compassionate, delivering ornery or wretched characters with equanimity and grace” –The Boston Globe

    “Brilliantly moving. . . . As stark and incisive as an X-ray negative of bones and joints.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    “A world class fiction writer.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Kennedy is adept at creating the texture of desire. . . . One of the bright young stars among contemporary British writers.” —San Jose Mercury News

    “Randy, crabby and dangerous to read . . . Kennedy is a master of the whomping good phrase.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

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