The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Mary Karr

The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Country
United States
Published
10 November 2015
Pages
352
ISBN
9780143107798

The Liars’ Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Mary Karr

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-now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in celebration of its twentieth anniversary

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

The Liars’ Clubtook 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.

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