With her fourth book, The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison finally wrote what she’d apparently been trying to write all along—a memoir about her own sexual relationship with her (till then estranged) biological father, which occurred when she was 20 and he was around /5. The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison was a fascinating book. It is well written and in good taste. The only criticism I would have would be that the author did not share how she was able to come to terms with what happened in her life. I am grateful that I read " A 4/5(). 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 4/5().
Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured. Kathryn Harrison. $ - $ The Kiss: A Memoir. Kathryn Harrison. $ - $ While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family. Kathryn Harrison. $ - $ Confessional memoirs have become such a publishing standby that even the most intimate revelations are losing the power to shock readers. Not so with Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, which set off a full-scale literary scandal when it hit bookstores last spring.. In spare, almost trancelike prose, Harrison, '82, tells the story of a four-year affair with her father, a Protestant minister she'd met. The Kiss is a memoir by American author Kathryn www.doorway.ru published in , the memoir details her relationship with her estranged father, which culminated in a sexual affair when they finally met again when she was an adult.
With her fourth book, The Kiss, Kathryn Harrison finally wrote what she’d apparently been trying to write all along—a memoir about her own sexual relationship with her (till then estranged) biological father, which occurred when she was 20 and he was around The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison was a fascinating book. It is well written and in good taste. The only criticism I would have would be that the author did not share how she was able to come to terms with what happened in her life. I am grateful that I read " A Conversation with Kathryn Harrison" at the end of the book. Harrison's memoir The Kiss documented a love triangle that developed involving her young mother, her father, and herself. It described her father's seduction of her when she was twenty and their incestuous involvement, which persisted for four years and is reflected in the plots and themes of her first three novels, published before The Kiss.
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