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The Binding Chair Kathryn Harrison publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 2000
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summary: A late nineteenth-century tale of a Chinese girl who flees from foot binding to brothel to marriage with a Westerner. |
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| BOOKS BY KATHRYN HARRISON: Envy 2005 –› Excerpt Envy portrays a New York family wracked by tragedy, some obvious - the accidental drowning of a young boy - much hidden. | ||
| The Seal Wife 2002 The story of a young scientist sent to Alaska in the early 1900s to establish a weather observatory, and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut - a woman who refuses to speak. | ||
| The Binding Chair 2000 A late nineteenth-century tale of a Chinese girl who flees from foot binding to brothel to marriage with a Westerner. | ||
| The Kiss 1997 An obsessive love affair between father and daughter that began when Kathryn Harrison, twenty years old, was reunited with a parent whose absence had haunted her youth. | ||
| Exposure 1993 Ann Rogers, a photographer, cannot forget her childhood career as her father's model and muse. As the psychological trap set by her past closes tighter, she escapes into a secret life that is both addictive and self-destructive. | ||
| Poison 1995 Harrison's strange, appalling, yet enrapturing tale focuses on two young women: Francisca de Luarca, the free-spirited daughter of a failed silkworm cultivator, and Marie Louise de Bourbon, doomed to marry the last surviving Hapsburg, the deformed and aberrant King Carlos. | ||
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