#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 Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poets 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. Karrs comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salingersa 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.
- | Author: Mary Karr
- | Publisher: Penguin Books
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0143035746
- | ISBN-13: 9780143035749