The Liars' Club by 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 anniversaryWickedly 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Liars' Club, a New York Times bestseller for nearly a year, was named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People, and Time, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and has received the Whiting Award, Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Awards for both verse and essays. Her other best-selling novels include The Art of Memoir, Lit and Cherry, and Sinners Welcome, as well as Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus, a poetry collection. Karr lives in New York City and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568952734 |
| ISBN 10 | 1568952732 |
| Title | The Liars' Club |
| Author | Mary Karr |
| Series | Wheeler Large Print Book Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wheeler Publishing Inc |
| Year published | 1995-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 407 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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