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LitMary Karr

Lit

2009386 pages
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The Liars' Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness-and to her astonishing resurrection.Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness…

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2 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    HarperCollins · 9780061959684
  • Other · English · 2009
    Harper · 9780060596989
BiographyCase studiesMental healthFamilyAmerican PoetsAlcoholismMental illnessRecovering alcoholics