Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
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Diffidence unfolds in one of
story-telling's mystery zones,
a place where the
battle for distance between narrator and her objects is
both
fierce and oddly
stylized. I don't remember when I last read such
intelligently
constructed writing.
Plus, it's erotic and visually beautiful. Andrei
Codrescu
Jean Harris's territory is the psychology of the
couple--its
gaps and
attractions,
its pains and revelations. Intelligently hermetic, she
negotiates
souls. Diffidence
is a mélange of air and stone, strength and
vulnerability.
Powerful and sensitive
at the same time, the novel squeezes destinies in one cup
of
prosa-forte that you
want to swallow sip by sip thinking of lost love and
conquered
vanities.
Carmen Firan, author of The Farce and Punished
Candors
Jean
Harris
speaks to
you in ways no one has spoken in recent fiction. The small
surprises
she offers with nearly every sentence are pure delight, and
you find
yourself
turning the pages slowly and reluctantly. The good new is: you
can
always
begin again.
Tsipi
Keller, author of Jackpot
Jean Harris is
a novelist who
lives in Long Island City, New
York. Her first novel, Shadowzone appeared in 1997.
It was
published by
Libra Press and launched in Bucharest, Romania
by
Professor Romul
Munteanu. An English Professor
and essayist,
Harris has written
literary criticism as well as texts on
psychology and the origin and
development of
literary
creativity.
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