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Harper
400 pages
Amazon.com Review
<b>Product Description</b><br/> <p> <i>The Liars' Club</i> brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. <i>Cherry</i>, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>). Now <i>Lit</i> follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection. </p> <p> Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. </p> <p> <i>Lit</i> is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. </p> <br/> <hr class="bucketDivider" size="1" /> <br/> <p align="left"> <B class="h1">Photos from Mary Karr</B><br/> <b>(Click to Enlarge)</b> <p><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/DadDogs175.jpg" border="0"> </td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/CharlieKarr175.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/Mary_and_howard_nemerov175.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="25%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/MaryMentaMarriott175.jpg" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="25%">Mary's much adored oil-worker Daddy</td> <td width="25%">Mary's artist mother, Charlie Karr</td> <td width="25%">Mary, at 22, meeting poet Howard Nemerov</td> <td width="25%">Mary one month before visiting the "Mental Marriott"</td> </tr></table> <p><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="20%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/MaryLecia150.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="20%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/MaryBabyDev150.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="20%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/MaryFamilyLiarsClubRdg150.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="20%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/MaryandDev_celebrating150.jpg" border="0"></td> <td width="20%"> <img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/Dev_in_jkt150.jpg" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny"> <td width="20%">Mary, age 17, with sister Lecia, age 19</td> <td width="20%">Mary and young son Dev</td> <td width="20%">Mary with family before her Leitchfield <i>Liars' Club</i> reading</td> <td width="20%">Mary celebrating the holidays with son Dev</td> <td width="20%">Mary's son, Dev Milburn, in 2009</td> </tr> </table> <HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1="/">
Harper
400 pages
Product Description
<p> <i>The Liars' Club</i> brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood. <i>Cherry</i>, her account of her adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and to her astonishing resurrection. </p> <p> Karr's longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she can't outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in "The Mental Marriott," with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, "Give me chastity, Lord—but not yet!" has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. </p> <p> <i>Lit</i> is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it. </p>
