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From the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an
extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.
Bigelow is a scientist, meticulous and obsessive, a man of tightly
coiled passion. Stationed in the tiny frontier town of Anchorage,
Alaska in 1915, he builds a weather observatory, a kite big enough
to penetrate the heavens, carrying instruments to track the great
storms that scour the land. He is distracted from his labours when
he meets a native Aleut woman, a stitcher of furs, whose muteness
calls up in him an almost unbearable longing. Her ferocious
self-containment begins to seem to him more and more animal - and
yet the more her silence pushes him away he burns to possess her.
And when she disappears, he begins to believe he'll die if he never
sees her again... An incendiary tale set against the sear and
haunting landscape of the Great North, THE SEAL WIFE merges the
enchantment of myth with a taut and chilling story of erotic
compulsion.
"One of the most startling books you are ever likely to read." GILL HORNBY, 'Observer' Heart breaking and extraordinary, Kathryn Harrison's beautifully written memoir bears witness to the years of her life in which the family bonds of love and loyalty are irrevocably broken by a dark, disturbing passion. "I couldn't stop reading this. I'll never stop remembering it." MARY KARR, author of 'The Liar's Club' "Eerily beautiful prose, making exposure and self-viscerating confession into an art form." NICCI GERRARD, 'Observer' "Remarkable for its candour, but also for its elegance, its sense of morality and its generosity of spirit." ELIZA CHARLTON, 'Sunday Telegraph' "Harrison writes like an angel." PENNY PERRICK, 'The Times'
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is "the herald of the modern American heroine, a mother of such strength and stature that she towers over her progeny much as she does the citizens of Salem."
Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan of Arc for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the royal court, during a brutally rigged inquisition and imprisonment, and in the face of her death. In this new take on Joan’s story, Harrison deftly weaves historical fact, myth, folklore, scripture, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a fascinating narrative, revitalizing our sense of Joan as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.
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Enchantments (Paperback)
Kathryn Harrison
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From one of the most admired literary voices of our time, a
magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's
last Tsar. St. Petersburg, 1917: as the New Year dawns, a diver
pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy
waters of the Neva River. Hours later, his daughters are taken to
the Tsar's palace, where the Tsarina makes a shocking request:
would Masha, 18, take on her father's role as healer at the sickbed
of the Tsarevitch Alyosha? Shaken, Masha agrees to do what she can
for the young prince, haunted as she is by questions about her
father's powers and her future in a country accelerating toward
political apocalypse. Two months later, the Bolshevik Revolution
forces the Tsar to abdicate, and the whole royal family is placed
under arrest in the Alexander Palace. Trapped together in
increasingly harsh living conditions, Masha and Alyosha find
themselves taking increasing solace in one another's company. The
two teenagers, with radically different experiences of Russia, of
Rasputin, and of Alyosha's parents' unlucky reign, create a private
realm of magic and of love, as Masha introduces the young
Tsarevitch to a wild and beautiful land he will never live to rule.
An unusual love story, stitched delicately into the rich tapestry
of Russian history, Enchantments brings to life the final days of
Rasputin and the Romanovs. It is a breathtaking tour-de-force by
one of our most acclaimed writers.
In this dark gem of a book by the author of The Kiss, a complex
mother-daughter relationship precipitates a journey through
depression to greater understanding, acceptance, freedom, and love,
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Spare and unflinching, The Mother Knot is Kathryn Harrison's
courageous exploration of her painful feelings about her mother,
and of her depression and recovery. Writer, wife, mother of three,
Kathryn Harrison finds herself, at age forty-one, wrestling with a
black, untamable force that seems to have the power to undermine
her sanity and her safety, a darkness that is tied to her
relationship with her own mother, dead for many years but no less a
haunting presence. Shaken by a family emergency that reveals the
fragility of her current happiness, Harrison falls prey to despair
and anxiety she believed she'd overcome long before. A relapse of
anorexia becomes the tangible reminder of a youth spent trying to
achieve the perfection she had hoped would win her mother's love,
and forces her to confront, understand, and ultimately cast out--in
startling physical form--the demons within herself. Powerful,
insightful, unforgettable, by "a writer of extraordinary gifts"
(Tobias Wolff), Kathryn Harrison's The Mother Knot""is a knockout.
"From the Hardcover edition."
In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century, The Binding Chair intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.
For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak.
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche—a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face.
Passing the Buck is the first in-depth study of the impact of
federalism on Canadian environmental policy. The book takes a
detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the
evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental
policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment
from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The author challenges the
widespread assumption that federal and provincial governments
invariably compete to extend their jurisdiction. Using
well-researched case studies and extensive research to support her
argument, the author points out that the combination of limited
public attention to the environment and strong opposition from
potentially regulated interests yields significant political costs
and limited political benefits. As a result, for the most part, the
federal government has been content to leave environmental
protection to the provinces. In effect, the federal system has
allowed the federal government to pass the buck to the provinces
and shirk the political challenge of environmental protection.
Comparative case studies and analyses of the influence of domestic
politics on countries' climate change policies and Kyoto
ratification decisions. Climate change represents a "tragedy of the
commons" on a global scale, requiring the cooperation of nations
that do not necessarily put the Earth's well-being above their own
national interests. And yet international efforts to address global
warming have met with some success; the Kyoto Protocol, in which
industrialized countries committed to reducing their collective
emissions, took effect in 2005 (although without the participation
of the United States). Reversing the lens used by previous
scholarship on the topic, Global Commons, Domestic Decisions
explains international action on climate change from the
perspective of countries' domestic politics. In an effort to
understand both what progress has been made and why it has been so
limited, experts in comparative politics look at the experience of
seven jurisdictions in deciding whether or not to ratify the Kyoto
Protocol and to pursue national climate change mitigation policies.
By analyzing the domestic politics and international positions of
the United States, Australia, Russia, China, the European Union,
Japan, and Canada, the authors demonstrate clearly that decisions
about global policies are often made locally, in the context of
electoral and political incentives, the normative commitments of
policymakers, and domestic political institutions. Using a common
analytical framework throughout, the book offers a unique
comparison of the domestic political forces within each nation that
affect climate change policy and provides insights into why some
countries have been able to adopt innovative and aggressive
positions on climate change both domestically and internationally.
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