The Kiss - A Memoir (Paperback)

In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today 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 began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was reunited with a parent 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 taboo 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.

"From the Hardcover edition."

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	April 2011
Authors:	Kathryn Harrison
Afterword by:	Jane Smiley
Dimensions:	204 x 131 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	238
ISBN-13:	978-0-8129-7971-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-8129-7971-0
Barcode:	9780812979718

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