Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life - Softcover

Harrison, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812972058 ISBN 13: 9780812972054

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman’s life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed through the lives we lead as adults. At the heart of Seeking Rapture is the notion that a woman’s journey is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing transcendence and re-creation of self.

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From the Back Cover:

Advance praise for Seeking Rapture

“The prose sings....Harrison [is] at her thoughtful, provocative best, mindful of the flaws and desires within everyone.” —Publishers Weekly

“Poignant glimpses into the life of a survivor.” —Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Kathryn Harrison

“Mesmerizing...harrowing in its emotional intensity, haunting in its evocation of a distant time and place.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, about The Seal Wife

“Lyrical passages...reads like profound poetry...the most enterprising and successful portrait of a man in heat by a female writer since Joyce Carol Oates’ tumultuously orgasmic What I Lived For.” —Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune, about The Seal Wife

“Impossible to put down...Kathryn Harrison is an extremely gifted writer, poetic, passionate, and elegant.” —San Francisco Chronicle, about Exposure

“Intelligent and impassioned...superbly written.” —The New York Times Book Review, about Poison

“A boldly distinctive voice...both lyrical and depth-plumbing, a voice charged with intensity and informed by psychological truths...remarkable.” —Newsday, about Thicker Than Water

“Like all good literature, The Kiss illuminates something that we knew already, while also teaching us things we had not even suspected.”—Los Angeles Times, about The Kiss

About the Author:

Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels The Seal Wife, The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water. She has also written a memoir, The Kiss. Her personal essays, including some from the collection Seeking Rapture, have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s magazine, and other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children. She can be reached at thebindingchair@yahoo.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0812972058
• ISBN 13: 9780812972054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208