By Kathryn Harrison
“Luminous and affecting . . . [Exposure] examines the usually effective line among artwork and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, superbly real looking, and intelligently disturbing.”
–Harper’s Bazaar
Ann Rogers seems to be a fortunately married, profitable younger girl. a skilled photographer, she creates satisfied thoughts for others, videotaping weddings, splicing jointly scenes of smiling faces, enhancing out awkward moments. yet she can't edit her personal stories so easily–images of a adolescence spent as her father’s version and muse, the topic of his celebrated sequence of arguable images. to manage, Ann slips right into a mystery lifetime of disgrace and vice. but if the Museum of contemporary paintings publicizes a retrospective of her father’s surprising snap shots, Ann reveals herself teetering at the fringe of self-destruction, desperately attempting to get away the mental maelstrom that threatens to devour her.
“Astounding . . . instructed in prose as multifaceted as a diamond, crystalline and enthralling. ‘Remarkable’ not often is going a long way enough.”
–Cosmopolitan
“Impossible to place down . . . Kathryn Harrison is a really proficient author, poetic, passionate, and elegant.”
–San Francisco Chronicle
“Exquisite, exhilarating, and harrowing.”
–Donna Tartt, writer of The mystery History and The Little Friend
“A breathless city nightmare challenging to put out of your mind. Stark, marvelous, and unique work.”
–Kirkus experiences (starred review)
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Additional info for Exposure: A Novel
On the time Ann skilled a sensation now not not like that linked to phantom limbs: she felt soreness the place there should be no discomfort; what have been amputated started to throb. achieving in the back of the liner, she retrieved 5 extra pictures of her father’s physique. She put them all among sheets of cardboard and sealed them right into a manila envelope with a observe to Doris that learn easily, “Please set up assembly with Elsin. ” She mailed the package deal insured and registered. Even displayed below glass, the Polaroids have a really informal caliber, possibly simply because they have been eager about an analogous version digicam humans carry to events, element at birthday truffles. The galleries are very quiet, the one noise that of people’s ft at the grey carpet, the hum of weather keep an eye on. audience input the gallery singly or in small, tight teams as though huddled for protection. many don't examine each photo, yet pick out one or in line with room, their eyes passing summarily over the others. the various audience frown, yet so much stream impassively via, their faces set in closed-mouth focus. nobody speaks, yet a few of the carry arms. In entrance of the photographs of her father as he died, a lady hides her face within the lengthy hair of her significant other. Ann stops in entrance of a enormous photograph of her mother’s hand, a galaxy of wrinkles over one knuckle. subsequent to it's a photo of herself, posed as though lifeless. Like these saints exhumed centuries after their martyrdom, she seems to be extra attractive useless than alive, as though her flesh were preserved in a nation of grace. The pink go out mild from over the gallery door is mirrored backward at the frame’s glass, and below it she sees Benny’s mirrored image as he enters the show. She strikes hurriedly during the ultimate room, huge photos solely of herself—naked, alone—and is going into the women’s bathroom at the different part of the corridor. She’s had 3 Cokes, no dinner, taken her shot hours in the past. the place does that depart her? challenging to bet. She sits on a bench contrary the reflect. She’s light, a bit shaky. the rest room is empty yet for one girl within the a ways stall. nonetheless sitting, Ann fusses together with her hair, combing it together with her hands. this isn't a good suggestion, says the voice as she closes the door of the center stall and takes to the air her black suede pump. only one extra sector hit to get me via this, she solutions, retrieving the tiny bag of crystal from the toe of her shoe. My sugar used to be so excessive, it won’t drop. She makes use of her fingernail to serve herself a tiny component of the drug, waits at the back of the locked door to think it kick in. The occupant of the neighboring stall lays a beaded jet bag at the ground subsequent to her toes. Ann seems to be at it. whilst she hears the rustling of involvement with undergarments, she snatches it. She clutches the handbag for a second ahead of establishing it silently. within: a lipstick, aspirins, a Kleenex, 4 hairpins, 16 funds. She stares on the contents of the little handbag: a survival package, aspirin. Oh, she thinks, , what's among this girl and the realm?