In The New Republic, by contrast, James Wolcott strongly criticized the work.
In The New York Times Book Review, Susan Cheever wrote, "The story of an intellectually powerful man and his consuming desire to ravish an innocent, almost preconscious, young woman (sometimes his daughter) has often been told-Zeus, Lewis Carroll and Humbert Humbert come to mind-but Kathryn Harrison turns up the volume, making this ancient immorality tale a struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between God and the Devil." In The New York Times critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called the memoir "appalling but beautifully written." It described her father's seduction of her when she was twenty and their incestuous involvement, which persisted for four years and is reflected in the plots and themes of her first three novels, published before The Kiss. Harrison's memoir The Kiss documented a love triangle that developed involving her young mother, her father, and herself. She graduated from Stanford University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Art History she received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1987 after attending that school's Writers' Workshop. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.Harrison's maternal grandparents raised her in Los Angeles, California, after her teenage parents separated when she was a baby. Her personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other publications. The novel's undertow of anguish will resonate with anyone who has tried to make sense of desire.Chilled to perfection." - PeopleĪbout the Author Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water. "Mesmerizing.harrowing in its emotional intensity, haunting in its evocation of a distant time and place." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Superb, perfect, one might even say-soaring." - The Seattle Times "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 "Intricately wrought.Harrison imbues her solitary silence with a stately air of self-possession." -Maria Russo, The New York Times Book Review "smerizing tale is dizzying in intensity its startling story twists are borne along by prose as austere and powerful as Alaska's icescape.
Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche-a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face. 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 outside convention. Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak. About the Book A stunning and hypnotic novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff), "The Seal Wife" tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak.īook Synopsis For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff).
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