Thicker Than Water - Softcover
Left in her grandparents' care after her parents' whirlwind marriage and divorce, Isabel longs for the parents who abandoned her, until her unhappiness erupts into a perverse and dangerous rebellion. Reprint.
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"Fascinating...Harrison describes twisted family mechanics with a stylish intensity that gives the grimness meaning".
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-- The Boston Globe
"Harrowing . . . it not only succeeds in conveying the horrors that parents may inflict upon their children, but . . . manages to wring from its heroine's story the hope and possibility of transcendence." --"New York Times Book Review "
"A brilliant, overheated first novel simmering with everything one wouldn't want to know about a family: incest, obsession, revenge."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Fascinating . . . Harrison describes twisted family mechanics with a stylish intensity that gives the grimness meaning." --"Boston Globe"
"Remarkable . . . a boldly distinctive voice . . . both lyrical and depth-plumbing, a voice charged with intensity and informed by psychological truths."--"Newsday
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Kathryn Harrison's novels include Thicker than Water and Exposure, both"""New York Times "Notable Books, and Poison, called "powerful and hypnotic" by "The New York Times "and "a masterpiece" by Lucy Grealy. Harrison lives in New York.
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0380731568
- ISBN 13 9780380731565
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages271
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