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In her fourth collection of poems, self-described black-belt
sinner Mary Karr traces her improbable journey from the inferno of
a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not
since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord--but not yet!"
has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion
story.
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Lit (Paperback)
Mary Karr
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Lit 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.
From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. Fleeing the thrills and terrors of adolescence, she clashes against authority in all its forms and hooks up with an unforgettable band of heads and bona-fide geniuses. Parts of Cherry will leave you gasping with laughter. Karr assembles a self from the smokiest beginnings, delivering a long- awaited sequel that is both "bawdy and wise" (San Francisco Chronicle).
#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past
50 Years The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a
hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir
of a generation--now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in celebration
of its twentieth anniversary "Wickedly funny and always movingly
illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear."
--Oprah.com The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the
art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a
dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east
Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of
J. D. Salinger's--a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down
the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose
accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This
unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic
childhood is as "funny, lively, and un-put-downable" (USA Today)
today as it ever was. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been
the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking
world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a
global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across
genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide
authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by
distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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.
#4 on The New York Times' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past
50 Years The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a
hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir
of a generation "Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating,
thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear." -Oprah.com The
Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the
memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival
of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town
brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D.
Salinger's-a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the
sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated
secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and
profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as "funny,
lively, and un-put-downable" (USA Today) today as it ever was.
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's
The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York
Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry
and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty years Karr
has also taught the form, winning teaching prizes at Syracuse. (The
writing program there produced such acclaimed authors as Cheryl
Strayed, Keith Gessen, and Koren Zailckas.) In The Art of Memoir,
she synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient,
writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and "black belt
sinner," providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of
the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her
own work in the genre. Anchored by excerpts from her favorite
memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experience, The Art of
Memoir lays bare Karr's own process. (Plus all those inside stories
about how she dealt with family and friends get told- and the dark
spaces in her own skull probed in depth.) As she breaks down the
key elements of great literary memoir, she breaks open our concepts
of memory and identity, and illuminates the cathartic power of
reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated
history, whether writer or reader, will relate. Joining such
classics as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Bird by
Bird, The Art of Memoir is an elegant and accessible exploration of
one of today's most popular literary forms-a tour de force from an
accomplished master pulling back the curtain on her craft.
"The Liars' Club" brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karr's
hardscrabble Texas childhood. "Cherry," her account of her
adolescence, "continued to set the literary standard for making the
personal universal" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Lit follows the
self-professed blackbelt sinner's descent into the inferno of
alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection.
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.
"Lit" 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.
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Viper Rum (Paperback)
Mary Karr
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R587
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In her third collection of poetry, Viper Rum, Mary Karr delves into autobiographical subject matter; various beloveds are birthed and buried in these touching lyrics, some of which, as the title suggests, deal with drink:
I cast back to those last years I drank, alone nights at the kitchen sink, bathrobed, my head hatching snakes, while my baby slept in his upstairs cage and my marriage choked to death
Precise and surprising, Karr's poems "take on the bedevilments of fate and grief with a diabolical edge of their own" (Poetry).
Also included is Karr's controversial and prize-winning essay "Against Decoration," in which she took aim against the verbal ornaments that too often pass for poetry these days-the "new formalism" that elevates form to an end itself.
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