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Becoming a Man: Half a Life Storyby Paul Monette, Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0060595647 (0-06-059564-7)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story'Book summary:Paul Monette first made a name for himself in 1978 with his debut novel, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, a comic romp with serious overtones. He established himself as a writer of popular fiction with three more novels before he and his lover were both diagnosed with HIV. In 1988 he wrote On Borrowed Time, a memoir of living with AIDS and of his lover's death. The passion and anger that fueled On Borrowed Time surfaces again in 1992's Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, his National Book Award-winning autobiography. Although it follows the traditional structure of the autobiography and bildungsroman--early family life, education, reflections on how art influenced the subject's view of life--Becoming a Man also filters Monette's story through two central facts: the closet and AIDS. Monette writes of the pain of being closeted, the effect it had on his writing, and how it shaped (and often destroyed) his relationships. Monette's fear and fury at AIDS and homophobia heighten the same skill and imagination he put into his fiction. This vision--poetic yet highly political, angry yet infused with the love of life--is what transforms Becoming a Man from simple autobiography into an intense record of struggle and salvation. Paul Monette did not lead a life different from many gay men--he struggled courageously with his family, his sexuality, his AIDS diagnosis--but in bearing witness to his and others' pain, he creates a personal testimony that illuminates the darkest corners of our culture even as it finds unexpected reserves of hope. [via]
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The Binding Chairby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0060934425 (0-06-093442-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Binding Chair: or A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Societyby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0375450009 (0-375-45000-9)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited
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Envy: A Novelby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0007216637 (0-00-721663-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Exposureby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0446670235 (0-446-67023-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exposure'Book summary:In luminous, provocative prose, Harrison tells the harrowing story of a woman poised on the edge of a psychological nightmare. As a child, Ann was her photographer father's muse, and his controversial photographs of her shocked the world. Now, years later, a museum retrospective causes her controlled existence to unravel. [via]
Kissby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0380731479 (0-380-73147-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Kiss No. 1: A Memoirby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0609000268 (0-609-00026-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Lady Chatterley's Loverby D. H. Lawrence, Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0375758003 (0-375-75800-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Poisonby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0380727412 (0-380-72741-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Poison'Book summary:Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when superstition, repression, and the Inquisition reign--the lives of these two young women unfold in tandem, barely touching. Each hoards the memory of her adored lost mother like an amulet. Francica's obsession with her lover, a Catholick priest, will shaper her fate. Marie Loouise is yoked by political expediency to the mad, imptoent Carlos II of Spain. But even as their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster, both Queen and commoner cultivate a dangerous, secret life dedicated to resistance, transcendence, and love. Written in gorgeous prose that has the sheen of silk, Kathryn Harrison's POISON vividlyreminds us of the persistence of desire, the passion that exists between mothers and daughters, and the sorcery of dreams.
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Saint Therese of Lisieuxby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0297847287 (0-297-84728-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saint Therese of Lisieux'Book summary:Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became-through her posthumously published autobiography-one of the world's most influential religious figures. In Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, bestselling novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison, whose depictions of women have been called "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) and "luminously intelligent" (The Boston Sunday Globe), brings to the saint's life her storytelling gift and deep insight as she reveals the hopes and fears of the young girl behind the religious icon.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux shows us the pampered daughter of successful and deeply religious tradespeople who-through a personal appeal to the pope-entered a convent at the early age of fifteen. There, Thérèse embraced sacrifice and self-renunciation in a single-minded pursuit of the "nothingness" she felt would bring her closer to God. With feeling, Harrison shows us the sensitive four-year-old whose mother's death haunted her forever and contributed to the ascetic spirituality that strengthened her to embrace even the deadly throes of tuberculosis. Tellingly placed in the context of late-nineteenth-century French social and religious practices, this is a powerful story of a life lived with enormous passion and a searing, triumphant voyage of the spirit. [via]More editions of Saint Therese of Lisieux:
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The Seal Wife : A Novelby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0375506292 (0-375-50629-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seal Wife : A Novel'Book summary:Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientists consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.
Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage. But what could have prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town with more than two thousand men and only a handful of women, or for winter nights twenty hours long? And what can protect him from obsessionobsession with a woman who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and obsession with the weather kite he invents, a kite he hopes will fly higher than any has ever flown before and will penetrate the secrets of the heavens?
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and convention. As she brilliantly reimagines the terrain of the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War, Harrison, a master of her material (Mary Gordon), also evokes early efforts to chart the weather and reveals the interior realm of the psyche and emotionsa human landscape that, in its splendor and terror, is profoundly and eerily reminiscent of the frozen frontier and the storms that scour its face. [via]More editions of The Seal Wife : A Novel:
Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Lifeby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0007143192 (0-00-714319-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Life'Book summary:In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a womans life as child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff), re-creates episodes in her life, exploring how experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed in the lives we lead as adults. At the heart of Seeking Rapture is the notion that a womans life is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing overcoming and re-creating of self.
Standing in her childrens bedroom, Harrison asks, How did it happen that I got from there to here? The bestselling author of The Kiss and The Seal Wife writes with honesty and grace of how her early longing for the mother who abandoned her led to a pattern of self-destructive behavior, from shoplifting to bulimia, and to yearning for ways to transcend and even erase her physical self, to become the perfect child her mother could love. As a woman, she writes of time, the relentless passage experienced by adults, in contrast to the languors of childhood, and she recalls with vividness and humor her grandmothers attempts in her eighties to cheat on a driving test. And as a daughter, she writes of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for closure that does not come, but which she creates on her own terms.
This is a writer at the top of her form, entirely the master of her material, said Mary Gordon about The Kiss, and the same can be said about Seeking Rapture, a book that is by turns startling, moving, insightful, and always resonant and true. [via]More editions of Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Life:
- Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life: ISBN 0007143184 (0-00-714318-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Life: ISBN 037550558X (0-375-50558-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Life: ISBN 0007143192 (0-00-714319-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life: ISBN 0007143184 (0-00-714318-4)
Thicker Than Waterby Kathryn HarrisonISBN 0060974737 (0-06-097473-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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