Mary Karr: The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
Buch
- A Memoir
- Penguin Random House LLC, 05/2005
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780143035749
- Bestellnummer: 5130544
- Umfang: 352 Seiten
- Nummer der Auflage: 05010
- Auflage: 10th Revised edition
- Gewicht: 231 g
- Maße: 196 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.5.2005
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsThe New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah. com calls the best memoir of a generation
"Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear." -Oprah. com
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.