- 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