The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143035749)

#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 poet's 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. 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 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
ISBN-10: 0143035746
ISBN-13: 9780143035749
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.08w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 57
Entertainment Weekly 11/06/2009 pg. 61