The Liars' Club
Oct 2015 · Picador Classic Book 37 · Pan Macmillan
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‘You’ll want to forget it and won’t be able to’ – Zadie Smith
‘The essential American story’ – The Washington Post
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.
When it was published in 1995, The Liars’ Club raised the art of memoir to a new level and brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karr’s warmth, intelligent humour and finely spun prose. The Liars’ Club is both heart-stopping and heart-felt.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Exceptionally powerful’ – The Observer
‘Utterly gripping’ – The Sunday Times
Part of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.
‘The essential American story’ – The Washington Post
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.
When it was published in 1995, The Liars’ Club raised the art of memoir to a new level and brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karr’s warmth, intelligent humour and finely spun prose. The Liars’ Club is both heart-stopping and heart-felt.
‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian
‘Exceptionally powerful’ – The Observer
‘Utterly gripping’ – The Sunday Times
Part of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.
‘You’ll want to forget it and won’t be able to’ – Zadie Smith
‘The essential American story’ – The Washington Post
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...
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About the author
A poet and essayist, Mary Karr lives in New York State. Her memoir, The Liars' Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir.
A poet and essayist, Mary Karr lives in New York State. Her memoir, The Liars' Club, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir.
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