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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Karr, Mary. Liars' Club. New York : Viking, 1995 (OCoLC)624291334 |
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| Named Person: | Mary Karr; Mary Karr; Mary Karr |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Karr |
| ISBN: | 0670850535 9780670850532 |
| OCLC Number: | 31374315 |
| Description: | 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Mary Karr. |
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Abstract:
The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life.
But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her mother's unimaginable past threatens the family's very sanity. Mary Karr looks back through younger eyes to exorcise those demons: a mad, puritanical grandmother; a vast inheritance squandered in one year flat; endless emptied bottles; and the darknesses inflicted on an eight-year-old girl. This voice explodes with antic, wit, stripped of self-pity. Miraculously, it makes a journey into joy. Here is a "terrific family of liars redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth."
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