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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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The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- The Kiss
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kathryn Harrison
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 238
- ISBN13
- 9780812979718
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Romance, Psychological Topics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Erotica, Relationships, American Literature, Sexuality & Intimacy, Family relationships, Abuse, Writers, Daughters, Incest, Fathers and Daughters, Anorexia, Loss of Apetite
- Original title
- The kiss
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- 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.