Author: Mary Karr
Title: The Liars' Club
Description: Picador 1996 Paperback, 336pp. Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile, defiantly loving family. In this keen and funny memoir, she looks back at a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over in psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club; and a neighbourhood rape when she eight. Karr paints her terrific family of liars and drunks with a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity. At times harrowing, her story is redeemed by warmth, intelligence and finely spun, ardent prose. Owner's Name inside. Some tanning; cover a little worn. (ISBN: 9780330344586). Good.

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