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Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Category: Biography
The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling 'The Liars' Club' and 'Cherry' -- a memoir about a self-professed 'blackbelt sinner's' descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. 'If you'd told me, even a year before I start taking my son to church regul ...Show more
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Category: Biography
Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up as only Mary Karr can ...Show more
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Category: Culture
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teachin ...Show more
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
Category: Biography
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr has also taught the form, winning teaching ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family ...Show more
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
Category: Biography
When it was published in 1995, Mary Karrs "The Liars Club" took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karrs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. ...Show more
The Liars' Club - A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions) by Mary Karr
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham When it was first published twenty years ago, The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely n ...Show more
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