Cathryn harrison biography of william

Will has a good sex life-with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career? He's about to lose his grip when he attends a college reunion and there discovers evidence of a past sexual betrayal, one serious enough that it threatens to overpower the present, even as it offers a key to Will's dangerous obsessions.
Hypnotic, beautifully written, this mesmerizing novel by "an extremely gifted writer" (San Francisco Chronicle) explores the corrosive effect of evil-and how painful psychological truths long buried within a family can corrupt the present and, through courage and understanding, lead to healing and renewal. "Like Scheherezade in the grip of a fever dream, Kathryn Harrison . . . has written one of those rare books, in language of unparalleled beauty, that affirm the holiness of life," said Shirley Ann G

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Growing up in an L.A. mansion that time forgot: Kathryn Harrison’s ‘On Sunset’

The past is, depending upon whom you ask, either "prologue," "a foreign country" or "never dead. It's not even past." (In this case, William Shakespeare, L.P. Hartley and William Faulkner, respectively).

All memoirs are, bygd definition, collections of the past, but few interrogate it ganska like Kathryn Harrison's "On Sunset." What sets Harrison apart fryst vatten that the past was her native land, even as she was living it. Raised bygd a pair of deeply eccentric old-world grandparents in a sprawling house on Sunset Boulevard, Harrison existed in a childhood out of time and place, seemingly unbound from her era.

Although the book is largely set in 1960s Los Angeles, spanning the years from Harrison's birth in 1961 to the 1971 sale of the house, there fryst vatten little sense of the outward time period. Instead, Harrison and her caregivers are given over to a kind of folie à trois of condensed, collective memory. Her g

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Seeking Rapture

From the Back Cover

When Kathryn Harrison was a little girl, her glamorous young mother left her in the care of her British grandmother who was raised in Shanghai.
To Kathryn, her mother's mother seemed almost unimaginably powerful figure: an imperious arbiter of good taste and a master storyteller, who, when coaxed, might reveal stories of a magic and vanished world. She jilted an array of suitable men before concluding that she was not quite modern enough to have a baby without a husband. Her daughter, Harrison's mother, was no more interested than she in being bound by convention. Harrison grew up a spectator of the remarkable, striving to comprehend these women and yet find her own way to live.

In this witty, touching memoir, Harrison writes of the ties that bond mothers to their children – and the forces that can drive them apart. She ponders the legacy of storytelling she inherited from her grandmother, and peers into the deep well of family history from w