false 14241 14 In this funny, razor-edged memoir, Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town with a volatile, defiantly loving family. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies--dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. An inheritance was squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at the deserving and undeserving. With a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity and a poet's eye for the lyrical detail, Karr shows us a "terrific family of liars and drunks ... redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth." 1269768 1995 The Liars' Club: A Memoir total:3848|5:1039|4:1419|3:1030|2:291|1:69| 3848 14612 5457 477 2 4 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 06:39:24 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 08:31:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat May 03 13:40:46 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 21:04:58 -0700 2008
I'm serious. Something good has come out of Texas after all!

The Liars' Club Mary Karr's memoir. She is fore mostly, a poet. This memoir of her childhood growing up in a small, east Texas oil town, was first published in 1995. The thought of how thi...more...]]> 3 2 true true Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 14:15:06 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 09:01:15 -0700 2008
Yes, the book was funny - in the beginning - despite the pain and the drama ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 25 17:18:05 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 17:28:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sat Sep 22 18:41:02 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 18:04:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 18:00:39 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 21:55:01 -0700 2009
Jeanette Walls' the Glass Castle - a similar story of a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 11:12:47 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 11:19:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:42:53 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 06:06:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 10 21:14:31 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 30 19:21:50 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:20:14 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 15:36:28 -0700 2009
To steal, of course, are...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 11:23:50 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 11:32:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 22 10:03:33 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 08:46:10 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 10:03:33 -0700 2009 once on writing. i loved on writing & think stephen king is an awesomely underrated craftsperson when it comes to writing, so i eventually got my act together & checked this book out of the library. kind of astonishing that it took me like six...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Oct 04 15:21:29 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 14 13:23:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 14:26:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 06:42:30 -0700 2009
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And it’s supposed to be funny. I really didn’t see any humor in it a lot. I even have a dark sense of humor, but sorry, reading about how the author gets raped twice before the a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:13:44 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:14:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 26 21:33:23 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 31 19:04:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:32:28 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 06:11:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 09 10:42:37 -0700 2007 Mon May 14 09:53:51 -0700 2007