{"product_id":"indelible-acts","title":"Indelible Acts (RARE BOOKS)","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe twelve stories in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndelible Acts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Clapping Pages","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45157771509946,"sku":"2RK7IPKAP-Used","price":29.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0713\/5576\/0826\/files\/9780099433484.jpg?v=1758059791","url":"https:\/\/clappingpages.com\/products\/indelible-acts","provider":"Clapping Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}