The Kiss: A Memoir
New York: Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2271880
ISBN: 9780679449997
First edition. Signed by author without inscription.
207 pp. "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."
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