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The Liars' Club: A Memoir

The Liars' Club: A Memoir - Paperback

by Mary Karr
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary KarrAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2005-05-31Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143035749ISBN-10:143035746UPC:9780143035749Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:7.70 x 5.08 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCCVMPFHTC
#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation

"Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear." --Oprah.com

The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's--a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as "funny, lively, and un-put-downable" (USA Today) today as it ever was.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143035749ISBN-10:143035746UPC:9780143035749Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Personal Memoirs, WomenSize:7.70 x 5.08 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SCCVMPFHTC
Mary Karr kick-started a memoir revolution with The Liars' Club, which was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, a best book of the year for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People and Time, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has won the Whiting Award, Radcliffe's Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and she has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her other bestselling books include The Art of Memoir, the memoirs Lit and Cherry, and the poetry collection Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. The Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, Karr lives in New York City.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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10th Revised Edition

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