The Kiss: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780812979718)

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.

Author: Kathryn Harrison
ISBN-10: 0812979710
ISBN-13: 9780812979718
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.56d