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Serious Sweet Quotes Showing of “Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.”. ― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet. 1 likes.  · Set in , this is a novel of our times. Poignant, deeply funny, and beautifully written, Serious Sweet is about two decent, damaged people trying to make moral choices in an immoral world: ready to sacrifice what’s left of themselves for honesty, and for a chance at tenderness/5().  · Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy review – a day in the life of London’s lonely hearts. Political and personal questions entwine as Kennedy gives a Author: Lara Feigel.

Serious Sweet A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for . Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy | Jonathan Cape, pp, £ AL Kennedy is known as a writer of exquisite precision, and there are examples of this in the interludes - snapshots of London scenes. A. L. Kennedy's eighth novel is a profoundly moving, often funny, and at points rending depiction of two good people. Serious Sweet is about the heroism of decency; albeit damaged decency Kennedy is not one of our finest writers simply because of the quality of her prose: she is because of the moral profundity of her work.

AL Kennedy. Serious Sweet by AL Kennedy | Jonathan Cape, pp, £ AL Kennedy is known as a writer of exquisite precision, and there are examples of this in the interludes – snapshots of. A L Kennedy: Serious Sweet As I have mentioned before, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way, according to Pink Floyd via Thoreau. The two main characters of this novel could certainly be said to be hanging on in quiet desperation. A. L. Kennedy's eighth novel is a profoundly moving, often funny, and at points rending depiction of two good people. Serious Sweet is about the heroism of decency; albeit damaged decency Kennedy is not one of our finest writers simply because of the quality of her prose: she is because of the moral profundity of her work.