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  • Published: 31 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780143035749
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $39.99

The Liars' Club

A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)




A 20th-anniversary edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, featuring a new foreword by Lena Dunham. 

A Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition

#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.

  • Published: 31 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780143035749
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $39.99

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