"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. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.
A poet and essayist, Mary Karr lives in New York State.
ISBN:
9781447289470
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/10/2015
Category:
Biography: General
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
336 page/s
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Not yet available
Price:
$19.99 AUD
The Liars' Club
Karr, Mary
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