The kiss / Kathryn Harrison.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House, c1997Description: 207 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 067944999XSubject(s): Harrison, Kathryn | Authors, American -- Biography | Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography | Incest victims -- Biography | Fathers and daughters -- BiographyDDC classification: 813/.54 | B LOC classification: PS3558.A67136 | Z69 1997Summary: 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.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | B HARR (Browse shelf) | Available | 28452 |
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.
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