
The Kiss
A Memoir
Kathryn Harrison(Author)
Random House Inc (Publisher)
Published on 12. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8129-7971-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation. A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo, The Kiss is also about love-about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8129-7971-8 (9780812979718)
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Kathryn Harrison's novels include Thicker than Water and Exposure, both New York Times Notable Books, and Poison, called "powerful and hypnotic" by The New York Times and "a masterpiece" by Lucy Grealy. Harrison lives in New York.