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by Kathryn Harrison (Author)
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Starred Review. William Moreland, the 47-year-old New York psychoanalyst at the center of Harrison's sixth novel, has a family that's awash in betrayals. Will's father, a retired veterinarian turned photographer, is having an affair with the owner of his gallery. Will's brother, Mitchell, a long-distance swimmer with "a name as recognizable as that of, say, Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods," is estranged from the family. And ever since Will's 12-year-old son died three years ago in a boating accident, his wife, Carole, has been emotionally and sexually distant. All these wounds pucker open when Will attends his college reunion and runs into a statuesque ex-girlfriend who left him 25 years ago when she may or may not have been pregnant with his child. That past betrayal becomes entangled with the others in Will's life and leads to further transgressions and revelations. Given the steamy, soap-operatic nature of this plot, it's remarkable how Harrison renders it emotionally plausible, in sinuous, sensitive and often funny prose, exposing the raunchiness of sex and the "obscene" nature of mortality. Will's profession as an analyst seems too convenient—allowing Harrison to analyze her own novel through the voice of her main character—but this is a pardonable flaw in a book so juicy and intelligent. (July)
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Harrison is a high-wire memoirist and a probing and inventive novelist. Her sixth novel, an intoxicating work of psychosexual suspense, portrays a New York family wracked by tragedy, some of it obvious--the accidental drowning of a young boy--much hidden. Harrison writes commandingly from a male psychologist's point of view, and much of the heady power of this harrowing tale is rooted in the fact that none of Will's powers as a perceptive therapist help him understand how his stoic wife copes with their son's death, or recognize that secrets are being kept from him. Yet Will's instincts are sharp. He wonders if the 24-year-old daughter of an old girlfriend is his. He is unnerved by his retired veterinarian father's transformation into a celebrated photographer. He obsesses about the subterranean, perhaps malevolent, aspects of his relationship with his identical twin, Mitch, identical, that is, except for the port-wine stain that disfigures Mitch's face. A world-famous long-distance swimmer, Mitch has been estranged from his twin and their parents for 15 years, ever since Will got married. Will is finally pitched into crisis by a new patient, a stunningly audacious, spiked and tattooed, viciously intelligent, foul-mouthed, and sexually rampaging young woman. Harrison's dialogue is electrifying, the sophistication of her psychology is mesmerizing, and her characters, so astutely drawn, are bewitching. Donna Seaman
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5.0 out of 5 stars Obsession, How Far Can a Man Go?, Jan 7 2008
By Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean) - See all my reviews
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Will Moreland is a successful psychoanalyst, married with two children and much as he thinks he is able to think his way through his grief over the death of his ten-year-old son Luke a couple years earlier, he can't. He thinks he sees clearly, but his vision is clouded. And he is obsessed, obsessed over the tragic drowning, obsessed over sex and obsessed over the fact that he may be the father of a child he's never seen. Add the fact that he is horribly jealous of his famous twin brother and you have a man who has some serious problems, successful psychoanalyst or not.

Will is about to take a trip into a dark place nobody wants to go, deep into the netherworld of his mind, a kind of self brought about hell on earth and his first step is when he goes to his twenty-fifth college reunion and confronts his old girlfriend, demanding to know if he is the father of her child. She tells him to buzz off and, of course, he won't, so it's down, down he goes and on his journey he meets a patient on his shrink's sofa who is so seductive that, well you get the picture. Then there is his philandering father, just another notch on the gun handle of Will's problems.

Will's obsessions and his journey make for delicious reading. The book is sexually explicit, sexually frank and sexually exciting, even if it is a bit rough on the old psyche at times. I know I couldn't put it down, but then I'm no stranger to sexually explicit writing. A prude might have a problem with this five star book, but if she gave it a chance it might open her eyes a bit and she might learn a thing or two worth knowing. This is a darn good book and worth every one of the five stars I'm giving it.

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