The Liars' Club A Memoir |
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| Author:
| Karr, Mary |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-303574-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2005 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.00 |
Book Description:
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#4 onThe New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years TheNew York Timesbestselling, 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' Clubtook the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level,...
More Description #4 onThe New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
TheNew York Timesbestselling, 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' 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.