Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The Liars' Club, (Paperback)

from vkb1

Without a doubt this is a powerful memoir, and it has been said that it is, in fact, the mother of the recent spate of memoirs. Mary Karr can turn a phrase like no one's business, but I don't know if I received the full impact of her story because of the tell-all age in which we now live. I appre...

from BillPilgrim

A memoir about her childhood growing up in Texas and then Colorado. She goes back to be with her father in TX after he suffers a stroke, when she is an adult. There is not really that much here that is especially interesting or extraordinary about her story. Her childhood was certainly not typica...

from TerryWeyna

I don't know what made me pick up this memoir one afternoon; I was sitting on the couch and it was right at eye level and I realized I hadn't read a memoir in a while, and next thing I knew I was halfway through it. It pulled me right in, this story of a girl growing up in the poorest part of Eas...

from dchaikin

48. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr (1995, 326 page paperback, Read August 15-24) To some degree I encountered a childhood memoir just like this once before, in [The Glass Castle] by Jeanette Walls (published in 2005), which leaves me to wonder if there is a literary theme of the experiences of 1960...

from RidgewayGirl

I finished this book a week ago, and have tried to write something about it a few times, but failed to come up with anything that would do justice to this vivid memoir of growing up in an industrial town in east Texas in the nineteen sixties. I bought this book long before I joined LT, began it a...