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The Liars' Club|Mary Karr
The Liars' Club : A Memoir
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#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsThe 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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780143035749
  • ISBN-10: 0143035746
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Publish Date: May 2005
  • Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.08 x 0.64 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.51 pounds
  • Page Count: 352
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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