The Kiss - Kathryn Harrison
KORTE INHOUD
'We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. A "man of God" is how someone described my father to me. I don 't remember who. Not my mother. I'm young enough that I take the words to mean he has magical properties and that he is good, better than other people. With his hand under my chin, my father draws my face toward his own. He touches his lips to mine. I stiffen. I am frightened by the kiss. I know it wrong, and its wrongness is what lets me know, too, that it is a secret.'
Heartbreaking and extraordinary, Kathryn Harrison's beautifully written memoir bears witness to the tears of her life in which the family bonds of love and loyalty are irrevocably broken by a dark, dusturbing passion.
'One of the most startling books you are ever likely to read.'
(Gill Hornby - The Observer)
'Eerily beautiful prose, making exposure and self-viscerating confession into an art form.'
(Nicci Gerrard, Observer)
'Harrison writes like an angel.' (Penny Perrick - The ...
Heartbreaking and extraordinary, Kathryn Harrison's beautifully written memoir bears witness to the tears of her life in which the family bonds of love and loyalty are irrevocably broken by a dark, dusturbing passion.
'One of the most startling books you are ever likely to read.'
(Gill Hornby - The Observer)
'Eerily beautiful prose, making exposure and self-viscerating confession into an art form.'
(Nicci Gerrard, Observer)
'Harrison writes like an angel.' (Penny Perrick - The ...
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