The Liars' Club

Author: Mary Karr

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  • : $25.00 NZD
  • : 9781447289470
  • : PAN MACMILLAN UK
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  • : October 2015
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  • : October 2015
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Description

"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can't but write it in the present tense." Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.

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The international bestseller from a prize-winning poet and critic

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A poet and essayist, Mary Karr lives in New York State.