She is both author and protagonist of a dark pilgrim’s progress. “Harrison’s story is her own, but it is also a brilliant fiction, densely mythic, sometimes almost liturgical sounding and raw. “A darkly beautiful book, fearless and frightening, ironic and compassionate.” -Mary Gordon, author of Circling My Mother Her autobiographical work includes The Kiss, Seeking Rapture, The Road to Santiago, The Mother Knot, and True Crimes. Harrison took pains to disguise her father's identity but nevertheless faced criticism for publishing. Kathryn Harrison has written the novels Thicker Than Water, Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, Envy, and Enchantments. 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 womans life: an obsessive love affair between. First published in 1997, the memoir details her relationship with her estranged father, which culminated in a sexual affair when they finally met again when she was an adult. He was dying of prostate cancer and seemed. The Kiss is a memoir by American author Kathryn Harrison. “Like all good literature, The Kiss illuminates something that we knew already, while also teaching us things we had not even suspected.” - Los Angeles Times ONCE, WHEN SHE WAS IN COLLEGE, Kathryn Harrison went for a ride with her grandfather, whom she'd never met before. I felt a hostility toward the novel that sort of crept up on me in the years after its publication, she explains. jumping back and forth in time yet drawing you irresistibly toward the heart of a great evil.” - The New York Times Harrison had originally told much of the story of The Kiss in her first novel, Thicker Than Water, which was well-reviewed when it appeared in 1991.Yet she ultimately found the fictionalized story to be unsatisfying. “Only a writer of extraordinary gifts could bring so much light to bear on so dark a matter, redeeming it with the steadiness of her gaze and the uncanny, heartbreaking exactitude of her language.” -Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life Every era must retell and reimagine the Maid of Orleans's extraordinary story in its own way, and inJoan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, the superb novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan for our timea shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence during a brutally rigged ecclesiastical. I’ll never stop remembering it.” -Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club 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. 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. In this beautiful, honest and shocking account of the years of her affair with her father, Kathryn Harrison confirms her growing reputation as one of the most significant literary voices of our times.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. Her relationship with her mother had never been easy and now there was this added complication, made worse by the obvious love which still existed between her parents for each other. By the time Kathryn was twenty the two had fallen into a passionate affair. Instantly, the two were attracted they even looked alike. She was not to see her father again until she was ten. Two authors with sexually transgressive histories of their own, have been, somewhat unexpectedly, biographers of Joan Vita Sackville-West, the noted, and notorious, British novelist who, in 1936, published the woman-warrior’s life story, Saint Joan of Arc, and Kathryn Harrison, the author of Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, published in 2014.
By which time their only child, Kathryn, had been born. Kathryn Harrison’s parents married aged 17 but were forced apart by disapproving parents within a year. The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison, Jane Smiley ( 311 ) 4.99 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. I feel his fingers in the hair at the nape of my neck.
He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father.
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