The Liars' Club: A Memoir -- Mary Karr

<b><b>#4 on <i>The New York Times</i>' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years</b> <p/><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation</b> <p/>"Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet<b>'</b>s ear." --Oprah.com</b> <p/><i>The Liars' Club</i> 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" (<i>USA Today</i>) today as it ever was.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Mary Karr<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 05/31/2005<br><b>Pages:</b> 352<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.51lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.70h x 5.08w x 0.64d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143035749<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Ingram Advance</i> 06/01/2005 pg. 57<br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> 11/06/2009 pg. 61<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Mary Karr kick-started a memoir revolution with <i>The Liars' Club</i>, which was a <i>New York T