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HTML: �Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.� �Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr�s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
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.… (more) |
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