{"product_id":"1582447","title":"Indelible Acts by A. L. Kennedy","description":"The twelve stories in Incredible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completionfor 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 Sona young boy from a damaged home searches for some kind of peace in the newly fallen snow. Each story in this mesmeric new collection is an epiphany, a revelation: eloquent, excoriating - saved from bleakeness by humanity and humour - unflinching and unwavering in its scrutiny of desire and loss. This 2002 Jonathan Cape Hardback is in \u003cb\u003e very good condition\u003c\/b\u003e. DJ. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780224062596 SKU: 1582447 \u003ci\u003eThis image is of the actual book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Cape","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49090437677333,"sku":"1582447","price":13.5,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/2695\/4036\/files\/1582447_2a3147f0-aa63-43a8-b810-91103c000673.jpg?v=1753596861","url":"https:\/\/bookhaven.live\/products\/1582447","provider":"Book Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}