Indelible Acts Tapa dura - 2002

Hardback. Acceptable.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780224062596

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UK: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches. h/b 212 pages, condition is very good. 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. Each story in this mesmeric new collection is an epiphany, a revelation: eloquent, excoriating - saved from bleakness by humanity and humour - unflinching and unwavering in its scrutiny of desite… Leer más

London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. Hardcover - first edition, first printing - in very good unclipped jacket. Page block and page edges are a little tanned; no further notable faults. TS. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.