Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Published on
May 31, 2005
Edition
10th Edition
Dimensions
5.07x0.61x7.69 Inches
Weight
0.51 Pounds
About the Book
#4 onThe New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
TheNew York Timesbestselling, 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' Clubtook 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.