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"The essential American story ... a beauty." —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World"Astonishing ... one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"This book is so good I thought about sending it out for a backup opinion...it's like finding Beethoven in Hoboken. To have a poet's precision of language and a poet's insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event." —Molly Ivins, The Nation"9mm humor, gothic wit, and a stunning clarity of memory within a poet's vision.... Karr's unerring scrutiny of her childhood delivers a story confoundingly real." —The Boston Sunday Globe"Overflows with sparkling wit and humor.... Truth beats powerfully at the heart of this dazzling memoir." —San Francisco Chronicle
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About the Author
Mary Karr kick-started a memoir revolution with The Liars' Club, which was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, a best book of the year for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People and Time, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has won the Whiting Award, Radcliffe's Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and she has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her other bestselling books include The Art of Memoir, the memoirs Lit and Cherry, and the poetry collection Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. The Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, Karr lives in New York City.
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Product details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (May 31, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143035746
ISBN-13: 978-0143035749
Product Dimensions:
6.3 x 0.7 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
513 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#13,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If your family is normal, or even quasi-normal, then "The Liar’s Club" will showcase a whole new cultural experience for you. Mary Karr’s memoir describes her 1960s childhood with her sister Lecia in hilarious, horrific detail. For our reading entertainment, the profoundly dysfunctional Karr family takes the proverbial stage in "Leechfield," Texas (a pseudonym for the Port Arthur area). Leechfield is a lower-middle class town where the land and the air, and a lot of the people, smell like oil.Per Mary’s telling, her mother (whom she simply calls Mother) is a tortured artist, full of inner grandeur, and stifled by the bounds of poverty. She’s philosophical, passionate, and brilliant in her own ways, but she’s immobilized by mental illness and alcoholism. Her artistic flamboyance is so out of place in Leechfield, no one knows what to make of her, and the community writes her off as lunatic. But their assessment doesn’t seem unfair. Mother’s wildly destructive behaviors are the primary thrill factor of the book. Only the glowering, disapproving grandmother can subdue her, to the astonishment and disappointment of young Mary.Mary’s father (Daddy) is the saner parent. He’s an alcoholic too, but since he’s unplagued by mental illness, he isn't ostracized. He holds a job in the oil refinery, feeds his family, and dotes on his little girls. Daddy is famous in Leechfield for his masterful telling of tall tales among friends (inspiring the title "The Liars’ Club").Although Mother and Daddy do love Mary and Lecia, Mother’s illness overshadows every aspect of their lives with insanity. Mary and Lecia have few boundaries. While Lecia assumes the responsibility that her mother shirks, Mary grows sassy and wild.When Mother comes into some money, they all move from oil-permeated Leechfield to an idyllic ranch in Colorado, where the girls roam the wild countryside on horseback in mountain-fresh air under wide open skies. But as it has been said, no matter where you go, there you are. Addiction and illness follow them. Mother and Daddy divorce soon thereafter, and the children are abandoned to themselves and tossed around with fantastical carelessness.To conclude the memoir, Mary skips to her young adulthood. Mother’s new money has been squandered, Mother and Daddy have reconciled, they’ve returned to Leechfield, Daddy is bedridden, and a great family secret is disclosed. Suddenly, the insanity makes sense. But don’t read ahead. You need the blindness to appreciate Mary’s bewildering, focusless upbringing.Throughout the book, Mary hints that she and Lecia have grown into contributing, productive humans, but as she describes her childhood, you may wonder how that outcome is possible. Maybe this is what saves the girls: Despite all the chaos, a thread of love is evident. The girls are not rejected by either parent, nor by each other. They learn attachment.Karr’s narrative is a mashup of childish perspective and grown-up introspection. Her lexicon is deliberate and selective. She crafts each sentence like a poet (which she also is). In her writing, you’ll see glimpses of the good genes she’s inherited. She’s an artist, like her mother, and a taleweaver, like her father. Enjoy "The Liar’s Club" like wine: Some of it is unsavory. Some of it is exquisite. All of it will alter your outlook.Check out my other reviews at [...]
Powerful writing. This memoir of a young girl's troubled growing up is disturbing and diverting. I could not put it down and fretted over what was coming next. How Mary Karr managed to grow up and to be able to write about her childhood leaves me dazzled.
An interesting read. I was the "mistake" baby, the youngest in a weird, dysfunctional family; I found many of my childhood experiences on the pages of the Liar's Club and, as the author does, I often reflect on how unusual my early life was because of my careless, self-centered parents. Mary Karr's writing style is very readable. Sometimes she overwhelms with detail, but overall this was an enjoyable story.
Best memoir I've ever read, along with The Glass Castle. I haven't read it for 10 years but just bought it again.
Like Karr, I grew up in East Texas.. so handily recognized Karr's people. The rough, blustering working men like her dad who, in their leisure time, sat around telling "lies" to one another. And the cigarette smoking, gin drinking & constantly high-heeled women like her mother. (Well, maybe only a very few like her mother --smiles). I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book & reminiscing about the world as I knew it half a century ago. Karr does a beautiful job of describing that world. The book is not, however, excellent literature. Indeed, I'm not sure this type of book is ever intended to be great literature.. But must give credit for what it is: entertaining.
If you're into reading personal memoirs (we used to call them auto-biography, but that designation seems to be passé today), you already know that The Liars' Club is often mentioned in the reviews (by way of comparison). It is gritty, down-to-earth and I could tell the author put her heart and soul into its telling. Some of the telling seemed redundant at points and the detail about Southeast Texas & Louisiana life was overlong. However, I can't deny that the story itself was compelling (if not maddening in many places); also the same character that infuriated me throughout the telling, in the end, made me cry. It was sometimes also difficult to comprehend that so many awful incidents could happen to one child (does the title have an ironic relation to the telling of the story itself?); however, if there were no embellishments, then this truly is a story of grit, survival and sharing--so that anyone who had similar growing-up experiences could feel the freedom of not going through hell alone.
This book was a little difficult for me. It was so entirely foreign to anything I've ever experienced as a way of life that I had trouble relating. It was certainly an eye-opener and made me realize how fortunate I was to have two loving parents. I think, for those very reasons, I needed to read it, even if it made me uncomfortable,.But if you've had any type of abuse in your childhood, it makes sense that you would really find comfort and understanding here.I gave it four stars because it was well written and, I think, a very important book. Well done, Mary Carr.
It was too long and drawn out for my ADD brain! The writing is phenomenal and amazing. Mary Karr is an artist with language, descriptions and the ability to portray and reflect the mind and spirit of a child.
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