Story Description:HarperCollins|June 14, 2001|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-06-093442-2In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the t...
Well, "Poison" is not one of my favorites, not by a long shot. While Harrison is obviously devoted to her craft (you can tell by the way each sentence is so elegantly put together that the author is less storyteller than she is an artist, whose medium is words), the WAY she chose to tell her sto...
1 star is too many.......When reading a memoir it helps if one can relate or sympathize with the author, unfortunately for me I could not understand, relate, or have any compassion for Ms. Harrison. She paints herself as an incest survivor who falls for the manipulations of her father, but by ...
The author of The Kiss, her memoir addressing her viewpoint on her voluntary role in a romantic, sexual relationship with her father, Kathryn Harrison is equally shocking in The Seal Wife. Of course, knowing this is fiction, it is a little different. I will admit to having to deter myself from be...
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“I am so sorry,” he says.“It’s all right. Really.” Will stands from the table. “It’s only water.”“I hope it’s not a bad omen,” Will’s father says wryly, a joke, although not the kind he makes ordinarily.“Oh no,” the maître d’ says, having rushed over. “No no no. We will make it into a good one.” ...
Nagorny buttoned “Handsome Alyosha” ’s coat as if he were a child, and “Handsome Alyosha” pushed his big kind hands away.I wanted to believe that Alyosha’s referring to himself in the third person, as Handsome Alyosha, was proof he’d intended the journal to find its way into my possession, or at ...
She remembered ruining the contents of the drawer in her grandmother’s bedroom. Now Dolly had done the same. Not intentionally, perhaps. But she had destroyed what she could not bear. May felt an unanticipated sympathy for her sister-in-law. The heat of the fire had been so intense that it melted...
There is nothing remotely titillating about Harrison’s book; instead, it reads like a slow descent into hell—one that compels and repels in almost equal measure at times. Harrison, who did not really meet her father until she was 20, takes the reader on a difficult journey into her loveless child...
“They were all knights and servants of Sir Robert de Baudricourt,” Joan testified. “Sir Robert had sworn them to conduct me well and safely.”“Go,” Robert said to Joan as she departed. “Go, and come what may.” It was hardly a benediction, but Baudricourt was obeying orders, not acting out of faith...