Indelible Acts

Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426394
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible Acts written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible Acts written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Justly celebrated as one of the most original young writers at work today, A.L. Kennedy writes stories of such intimacy, such acting honesty, that they are impossible to forget.

Author : Adelia Saunders
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632863960
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible written by Adelia Saunders and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indie Next Pick A masterful, "seductive" debut novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell (NYTBR). Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin--names, dates, details both banal and profound--and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek, and she is drawn into a family drama that began more than half a century before, when Neil's father, Richard, was abandoned at birth by his mother, a famous expatriate novelist. As secrets are revealed among forgotten texts in the archives of Paris, on a dusty cattle ranch in the American West, along ancient pilgrim paths, and in a run-down apartment in post-Soviet Lithuania, the novel's unforgettable characters converge--by chance, or perhaps by fate--and Magdalena's uncanny ability may be the key to their happiness.

Author : Shelly Oria
Publisher : McSweeney's
ISBN 13 : 9781944211714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible in the Hippocampus written by Shelly Oria and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This truly intersectional collection of essays, fiction, and poetry sound the voices of black, Latinx, Asian, queer, and trans writers and says "me too" 22 times. Whether reflecting on their teenage selves or their modern-day workplaces, each contributor approaches the subject with unforgettable authenticity and strength.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059319182X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible City written by Louisa Lim and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a “barren rock” with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial, at last returned to the ancestral fold. For decades, Hong Kong’s history was simply not taught, especially to Hong Kongers, obscuring its origins as a place of refuge and rebellion. When protests erupted in 2019 and were met with escalating suppression from Beijing, Louisa Lim—raised in Hong Kong as a half-Chinese, half-English child, and now a reporter who has covered the region for nearly two decades—realized that she was uniquely positioned to unearth the city’s untold stories. Lim’s deeply researched and personal account casts startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations over the 1997 return to China, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Indelible City features guerrilla calligraphers, amateur historians and archaeologists, and others who, like Lim, aim to put Hong Kongers at the center of their own story. Wending through it all is the King of Kowloon, whose iconic street art both embodied and inspired the identity of Hong Kong—a site of disappearance and reappearance, power and powerlessness, loss and reclamation.

Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780224069496
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible Acts Proof written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Wiesner
Publisher : Writers Exchange E-Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925574733
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible written by Karen Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tori Bertoletti, librarian and planet cataloger, and Raze Salen, mankind's emissary, aboard the Human spacefaring liveship the Aero have succeeded in creating a Galactic Alliance with other cultures in their universe in order to protect themselves from an adversary who considers itself the supreme race, the Chosen of the Creator. Cultures that at one time would have considered all others antithetical to their own no longer have a choice about facing the indisputable fact that, though they've all come from different planets and far-flung sectors of the galaxy, they are genetically one and the same. But can the enemy of my enemy become my friend against the warring Sinshe...as well as an organic process that won't be stopped until all life to the farthest corners of the universe ceases to exist and only darkness reigns?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Author : A. L. Kennedy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307427153
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Bliss written by A. L. Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace. "A darkly comic tale.... [that] is hilariously funny about sexual obsession and brilliantly perceptive about the dynamics of human relationships."--The Baltimore Sun

Author : Richard Kluger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393245470
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press written by Richard Kluger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book Review In 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of the royal government. Zenger was thrown in jail for nine months before his landmark one-day trial on August 4, 1735, in which he was brilliantly defended by Andrew Hamilton. In Indelible Ink, Pulitzer Prize–winning social historian Richard Kluger has fashioned the first book-length narrative of the Zenger case, rendering with colorful detail its setting in old New York and the vibrant personalities of its leading participants, whose virtues and shortcomings are assessed with fresh scrutiny often at variance with earlier accounts.