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The Kiss|Kathryn Harrison
The Kiss : A Memoir
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Overview

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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  • ISBN-13: 9780812979718
  • ISBN-10: 0812979710
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: April 2011
  • Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.28 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
  • Page Count: 256

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