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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
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