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Also by Mary Karr:

The Art of Memoir, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Lit, November 2009
Hardcover
Sinners Welcome, March 2006
Hardcover
The Liars' Club, June 2005
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Cherry, September 2001
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THE LIARS' CLUB
By: Mary Karr

Astonishing ... one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Penguin
June 2005
352 pages
ISBN: 0143035746
Trade Size (reprint)
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Fiction Poetry

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.

"This book is so good, I thought about sending it out for a back-up opinion...it's like finding Beethoven in Hoboken. To have a poet's precision of language and a poet's insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event." - Molly Ivins

Media Buzz

Fresh Air - NPR - June 13, 2006