Mary Karr
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.93 | 57361 Users | 2876 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Liars' Club |
| Author | : | Mary Karr |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 10th anniversary ed. |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | May 31st 2005 by Penguin Books (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Adult |
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When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as 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 twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. Now with a new introduction that discusses her memoir's impact on her family, 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.Details Books In Favor Of The Liars' Club
| Original Title: | The Liars' Club: A Memoir |
| ISBN: | 0143035746 (ISBN13: 9780143035749) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers (1996), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (1995) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 57361 Users | 2876 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books The Liars' Club
I had heard a great deal about Mary Karr's _The Liars' Club_ before I read it. _The Liars' Club_ is considered one of the groundbreaking books in the current memoir movement, and there is much for a writer to learn from it, both things to steal and things to avoid.To steal, of course, are the humor and honesty. One of my favorite moments occurs when Karr explains that she and her sister misheard the phrase "It ain't the heat, it's the humidity" for years, believing people said, "It ain't theThis was a challenging read at times, especially regarding sexual assault (if you are sensitive to that, be warned there are some very descriptive chapters regarding it).It definitely reminded me a lot of The Glass Castle, Chanel Bonfire, and Educated. And I'm not sure if that's a pro or con because I loved those books but this felt a bit stale because I'd read that story a few times before. Karr's writing, however, is superb and as it went on I got much more invested in the story. The last
Posted at Shelf Inflicted After reading Will's intriguing review of Lit: A Memoir, I decided it was time to explore Mary Karrs work, so I went to the library and borrowed The Liars' Club. Written in 1995, this memoir explores the authors dysfunctional childhood in sweltering and swampy Leechfield, Texas.Though Mary Karr and I did not have similar childhoods, there were definitely certain life situations and reactions to them that I could relate to and I came to realize that no matter how
So that's how you end a memoir. Case closed.I can't imagine the restraint and discipline required to write this book. Karr doesn't really tell you a damn thing. She lets the questions accrue, and you go along for the ride as they spool. There are so many questions (Wait, what the?) that you forget about half of them. And she never mentions any of them explicitly anyway, as in "I always wondered about..." Nope. She doesn't really explain. You're just in this fog of incident and chronology, the
Warning! This review contains spoilers.To start out with, I find the title somewhat misleading. The Liars Club is the authors father and his drinking buddies. Yet this book is not only about this group of alcoholics. Thus, the title does not really cover the whole book. Yet this is the smallest beef I have with this book.I SOLEMNLY SWEAR that Ill try really hard to never ever read a bestseller again (unless it is a classic that has stood the test of time).The Liars Club is a bestseller. Stephen
NOTE: THE LIARS'CLUB four-star rating does not mean that I "really liked it."I usually love memoirs. (Well, not ones written by narcissists or liars.) If I were young enough to have read Mary Karr's THE LIARS' CLUB (1995) when I was in my early twenties, I might well have appreciated it to the extent that the work deserves. Alas, another if. Unfortunately, I've grown old, old enough to "wear my trousers rolled" (T.S. Eliot). And in the past year, this old person has read too much material
Did not finish.I was 75 pages into this awful thing, and I have no clue why it was so highly praised. The author grew up poor, with difficult parents. I grew up poor with difficult parents, as did most of the kids I knew. It's really not that unusual. Or interesting. I believe that people who want to write a memoir should ask themselves the following questions:a.) Am I wildly famous, whereby I have reason to suspect that people will want to read about every single thing I ever did, and every
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