Mary Karr

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

A Memoir

In her 1995 memoir The Liars' Club, a wickedly funny account of her apocalyptic childhood in East Texas, Mary Karr introduced us to her brawling, loving family: a bohemian mother married seven times, twice to her father; her wicked, wheelchair-bound grandmother, and her 'senatorial' sister Lecia, an authoritative ten-year old who, with Mary, tried to keep this explosive family together. The book struck a nerve when it was published, went on to win numerous awards, and became a huge bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. "Cherry", Mary's highly-anticipated follow-up memoir, covers her life up to the age of seventeen: through deep and abiding friendships, through early and touchingly hilarious experiments with sex, through the process of self-creation a young girl goes through when there's nobody around to show her the way. The book is divided into three parts: "Elementary's End", about the summer when Mary was between the fifth and sixth grade; "Midway", about her junior high school years,and "High", about her tumultuous high school years in the early 1970s. Mary's focus in this book is on her sexual coming of age, particularly th

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In this paperback of her long-awaited sequel, we find Karr once again trying to run from the thrills and terrors of her psychological and physical awakening by violently crashing up against authority in all its forms, shuttling between the principal's office and the jail cell. Yearning, like a typical teenager, for the ideal love or heart's companion who will make her feel whole again, she throws in her lot with an varied and outrageous band; surfers, yogis, bona fide geniuses. Karr's edgy, brilliant prose careens between hilarity and tragedy. Although there are other memoirs that pay close attention to the process of self-creation and destruction that young girls go through, with all its accompanying anguish, self-consciousness and inertia, there is no one who writes about it like Mary Karr. Her prose is lustrous and cinematic, her humour earthy and irresistible. And the dramas and happenings of her life are of an intensity that few others ever experience.

Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography

Format - Hardcover

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Est. Publication Date - Sep 2000

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Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 10 months ago

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Est. Publication Date - Sep 2000

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