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Haunting exploration of forbidden love and family secrets.
This book is a gripping and haunting exploration of a forbidden love affair between a father and daughter. Through beautiful prose and intense emotions, the author delves into the complexities of human desires and the ways in which society shapes our relationships. It is a deeply unsettling read that will stay with you long after you've turned the last page, challenging your understanding of love, betrayal, and the boundaries we create within our own families.
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ISBN: 9781857027082
Authors:
KATHRYN HARISON
Publisher: 4TH ESTATE
Date of Publication: 1998-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Memoir,
Biography,
Autobiography,
Psychology,
Personal Development,
Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.55
(rated by 6241 readers)
Description
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The 1990s seems to be the decade of revelation. What used to be private is becoming increasingly public. All is aired on talk shows whose guests are no longer celebrities hawking their latest film, book, or album, but ordinary citizens selling their personal traumas. Mothers Who Sleep with Their Daughters' Boyfriends; Men Who Wear Their Girlfriends' Clothes; People Whose Families Have Been Murdered Before Their Eyes - no subject is too salacious or too shameful for public consumption. And now here comes a true story about A Woman Who Slept with Her Father - prime fodder for the TV talk show feeding frenzy. Certainly it would be easy to lump Kathryn Harrison's new memoir, The Kiss into this same category of titillating topics, but that would be a mistake. There is nothing remotely titillating about Harrison's book; instead, it reads like a slow descent into hell - one that compels and repels in almost equal measure at times. Harrison, who did not really meet her father until she was 20, takes the reader on a difficult journey into her loveless childhood, her bouts with anorexia and bulimia, and, eventually, the incestuous 4-year affair with her father. Her prose is deceptively simple; her choice of present tense to describe events that occurred many years ago forces an immediacy - almost a complicity - upon the reader that heightens both revulsion and compassion. The Kiss is not for everybody. Some readers will be outraged by its subject matter; others will find it just too painful to read. But for those who make it through, this harrowing tale promises the reward of a life reclaimed and a tragedy transcended.
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