This is an auction for THE KISS by Kathryn Harrison.

"Powerful. Remarkable for both the startling events it portrays and the unbridled force of the writing."

• a *** starred *** review in Publishers Weekly (US)

"A mesmerizing true tale that in this talented novelist's hands takes on the mythic proportions of a Greek tragedy."

• a *** starred *** review In Kirkus Reviews (US)

"The reading experience doesn't get much better than this: a literary author whose fiction has flirted with incestuous leitmotivs writes a true confession, and in the present tense, of her several-year 'affair' as a college student with her father. Instigated by a French kiss in an airport - like the 'transforming sting' of a scorpion that the father 'administers in order that he might consume me' - their tentative rapprochement explodes into an 'unspeakable' passion. It's hard not to approach this publishing sensation cynically; the book is dedicated to 'Beloved' - her mother, not her father."

• Library Journal (US)

"Appalling but beautifully written...jumping back and forth in time yet drawing you irresistibly toward the heart of a great evil."

• New York Times

"Every now and then a book comes along that disturbs, disrupts, and polarizes the public in new ways."

• Los Angeles Times

"A mesmerizing true tale that in this talented novelist's hands takes on the mythic proportions of a Greek tragedy."

• a *** starred *** review in Kirkus Reviews (US)

"This extraordinary memoir 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 was twenty years old."

• Amazon.com.

Hardback 1997.

207 pages.

Very good condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Wellington following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.