In it Ms. Harrison has reworked the material she treated as fiction in her first two novels, Thicker Than Water and Exposure. At the end of a praising review of Thicker Than Water published in 1991, the novelist Scott Spencer asked astutely if that novels autobiographical elements hadnt overwhelmed its art. I remember thinking, she writes. Playing to an audience already squirming in their seats, Random House moved up the publication date of The Kiss by more than a month and that still wasnt enough to satisfy Newsweek, which jumped the gun by several weeks with its review. I like the writing in this book. Women writers too often receive another kind of scrutiny, particularly when they go public with an exceptionally naked version of the truth. Read Any Book - Online Library - Read Free Books Online,