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Lit - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Lit - A Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R331
Loot Price R281
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You Save R50 (15%)
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The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling 'The Liars'
Club' and 'Cherry' - a memoir about a self-professed 'blackbelt
sinner's' descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and
her astonishing resurrection. 'If you'd told me, even a year before
I start taking my son to church regular that I'd wind up whispering
my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying the rosary, I
would've laughed myself cockeyed. More likely pastime? Pole dancer.
International spy. Drug mule. Assassin.' Mary Karr's prizewinning
'The Liars' Club' chronicled her hardscrabble Texas childhood and
sparked a renaissance in memoir, cresting the New York Times
bestseller list for more than a year. 'Cherry', her ecstatically
reviewed account of a psychedelic adolescence and a moving sexual
coming-of-age, followed it into bestsellerdom. Now 'Lit' answers
the question asked by thousands of fans: How did Karr make it out
of that toxic upbringing to tell her own tale? Karr's longing for a
solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome,
blueblood poet who can quote Shakespeare by the yard produces a
blond son they adore. But Karr can't outrun her apocalyptic
upbringing. 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 again, and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since St.
Augustine cried, 'Give me chastity, Lord - but not yet!' has a
conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. 'Lit' is about
getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of
a mother; learning to write by learning to live. This hotly
anticipated sequel brings Karr's story full circle; it will endure
in the hearts of readers alongside her influential and beloved
earlier books. Simply put, it is a triumph.
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