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by Mary Karr (Author)
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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 row 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."


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Poet Karr's NBCC nominated memoir of her East Texas childhood is a blackly comic tale of a family prone to alcoholism, violence and insanity.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Does the title give a valuable clue?, Aug 5 2001
By "skylark77" (New York City) - See all my reviews
The majority of this memoir recounts a period in the author's childhood where she was around 5 years old, or thereabouts. As I was reading this book, I kept going around and around about how much of this is downright fabricated and in fact the work of a very skillful writer? Yet all the loose ends tie up at the end. Hmm, don't know what to think.

It's not a pretty story and not for the faint of heart. I can be a pretty tough old bird, and some of her descriptions were downright shocking. This book was recommended to me by an author, and I was told it had one funny one-liner after the next, flat out great writing--read it immediately! I didn't want to tell this person, that I didn't laugh but once (the humor is dark) and I thought, Geez, this writer should be put in the corner with Salinger and Henry Miller (w/o all the four-letter obscenities) as far as salty prose goes. If that is your cup of tea, then give this book a try. After all is said and done, it is a page-turner, it keeps your interest, and even has a sort of moving twist at the end. It's a well-written book; the style will not be for everyone.

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2.0 out of 5 stars So hard to believe, Mar 23 2001
By "vandana_iyengar" (Folsom, CA USA) - See all my reviews
I have just completed reading part I of this book and I am finding it all very hard to believe. I do not believe that a 7 year old can have as much psychological insight into a situation as Mary Karr claims she did when she was 7, not to mention an adult sense of humor. All in all, the gist of her life-story may very well be true, but to me, it seems like Mary Karr has made up all the little details she write about in her book. It is also very very prosaic, and it pales in comparision to Frank McCourt's beautiful poetic memoir.
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2.0 out of 5 stars flat, monotonous, self-justifying, Mar 8 2001
I believe the reason the tone of this book is so flat is that Karr is much more interested in remembering her childhood the way she needs to remember it, rather than the way it really happened. Anyway, it rings false for me. Virtually none of the brightness and magic that shines so sweetly in childhood is present here.

The great appeal of this book is, as I'm sure many have noted before me, schadenfreude, i.e., enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others. The appeal is further compounded by the novelty of the contrast between the book's dreariness and all the sugar coated pap everyone gets fed to them by Hollywood and TV. But that's just my guess. And although I enjoy a good pratfall as much as the next guy, I'm not ghoulish enough to enjoy wading through 300 pages of it. As for TV and Hollywood, people would find more nourishment for their souls all around them if they would just turn their backs on the entertainment industry. Thanks for listening.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Sins of the Father are visited . . .
I found Karr's account about her upbringing in a very dysfunctional middle-class American family both disturbing and rewarding. Read more
Published on April 11 2007 by Ian Gordon Malcomson

5.0 out of 5 stars A Horrible Childhood, Reported with Youthful Perspective and Adult Objectivity and Humor

Many people have pointed out that humor is a good way to keep from crying all the time. Author Mary Karr has clearly gained that perspective as she describes one of the... Read more
Published on Oct 7 2006 by Professor Donald Mitchell

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny writing, down-to-earth style
I thought I was sick of daughters-with-crazy-mothers (often from the South) books, but this one sucked me in with its wit and candor. Read more
Published on May 27 2004

2.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing Fiction
This book is fiction, not a memoir. The author writes that her mother was in a hurry to marry her Dad because she was already 30. Read more
Published on April 6 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow--just Wow
If you don't own a copy of The Liars' Club, your collection is incomplete. This is by far the smartest, ballsiest, sassiest, best-written memoir I've read. Read more
Published on Mar 4 2004 by L. D. Widmer

1.0 out of 5 stars Liars' Club Review
This book was all but interesting to read. I had such a difficult time finishing this book, which was for class. Read more
Published on Feb 7 2004 by Marianne

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Memoir You Will Ever Read
Mary Karr had to go through hell so you could read a very cool book. That's one way to look at this opus, an exploration of the author's East Texas girlhood and the collapsing... Read more
Published on Jan 24 2004 by Bill Slocum

2.0 out of 5 stars Southern re-fried chicken
Karr has a gift for the sort of "colorful" Southern writing Yankees can't seem to get enough of. Read more
Published on Dec 8 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but didn't enrapt me...
...like the memoir Blackbird and Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck. Those books were so well written and much more believeable in the way it is written from a child's perspective. Read more
Published on Sep 16 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars A feisty, resilient little girl
*The Liar's Club* is the first of two autobiographies by poet and professor, Mary Karr, covering the period between her earliest childhood memories to early adolescence. Read more
Published on Sep 9 2003 by Angela Richardson

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