Exposure : A Novel (Paperback)

from kraaivrouw

There was a kind of woman who was very fashionable throughout the nineties - intellectual, talented, beautiful, damaged in some vague and unspoken way. These women made a performance of their damage and of their self-destruction and took us all along for the ride. Kathryn Harrison, with her memoi...

from kraaivrouw

There was a kind of woman who was very fashionable throughout the nineties - intellectual, talented, beautiful, damaged in some vague and unspoken way. These women made a performance of their damage and of their self-destruction and took us all along for the ride. Kathryn Harrison, with her memoi...

from Naberius

Something about this book compels me to read it again every so often. The self-destructive main character draws me in, and I like Harrison's descriptions of the photography. Disturbing but engrossing --- it never takes me long to get through the book, but every time through, I enjoy it.

from jenpbarr

There are a few cheesy parts, but other than that, this book is captivating, racy and raw.

from aseikonia

I liked "The Seal Wife" by this author, but unfortunately I found this early novel, published in 1993, about a train-wreck of a diabetic woman who shoplifts and does drugs, to be disappointing. Ann Rogers, the main character, was relentlessly and obsessively photographed by her father in a variet...