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The Liars’ Club

Mary Karr

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#2526 of 3,809 books · #911 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1995).

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.

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Publisher
Picador USA
ISBN-13
9781035060252
Topics
Childhood and family dysfunctionGrowing up in East TexasAlcoholism and mental illness

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