· But he provokes me in his silence, the way he seems, without eyes, to stare. I grow afraid of the dark, and at bedtime I require night-lights, Ovaltine, my grandfather's singing over and over the talismanic "K-K-K-Katie," and a magic row of eleven stuffed bears set along the wall by my bed. Still, I wake screaming. Kathryn Harrison’s “The Kiss,” a memoir of her incestuous relationship with her father, is the latest, and perhaps the best, example of such a polarizing work. To call it controversial would be a laughable understatement; it has been the object of almost apoplectic fury. · The story, wrapped neatly in a memoir titled The Kiss, is appalling as the titular kiss she refers to is one between her year-old self and her year-old father. For most of Kathryn Harrison’s life, her father was not present.
THE KISS. A Memoir. By Kathryn Harrison. pages. Random House. $ Why do human beings commit incest? In her appalling but beautifully written memoir, ''The Kiss,'' Kathryn Harrison, the. 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. The Kiss. Kathryn Harrison. Random House, - Family Relationships - pages. 12 Reviews. 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.
But he provokes me in his silence, the way he seems, without eyes, to stare. I grow afraid of the dark, and at bedtime I require night-lights, Ovaltine, my grandfather's singing over and over the talismanic "K-K-K-Katie," and a magic row of eleven stuffed bears set along the wall by my bed. Still, I wake screaming. The Kiss is a memoir by American author Kathryn Harrison. First 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
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