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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."
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Il bacio, Kathryn Harrison
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- Il bacio
- Language
- Italian
- Authors
- Kathryn Harrison
- Publisher
- Garzanti
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 167
- ISBN10
- 8811661617
- ISBN13
- 9788811661610
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Romance, Psychological Topics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Erotica, Relationships, American Literature, Sexuality & Intimacy, Abuse, Family relationships, Writers, Daughters, Incest, Fathers and Daughters, Anorexia, Loss of Apetite
- Original title
- The kiss
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- 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."