Mary Karr, Author . HarperCollins $22.95 (93p) ISBN 978-0-06-077654-1
The author of the memoirs The Liar's Club
and Cherry
began as a poet; this first collection of verse since 1995's Viper Rum
alternates between a familiar, unsparing autobiographical vein and a new commitment to Christian belief. Karr, a...
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Mary Karr, Author . Harper $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-191813-1
Karr returns with her third account (after The Liar's Club
and Cherry
) of her dark and drunken years as a newlywed and new mother, written to help her son get “the whole tale” of their early years together. Before she wrote...
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Mary Karr, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $9.95 (51p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1231-1
Karr's ( Abacus ) collection encompasses traditional subjects and forms: elegies for friends, homages to mentors, love poems, fantasies inspired by the arts (Don Giovanni or an early Renaissance etching), confessions, poems about children and...
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Mary Karr, Author Penguin Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-017983-5
Poet Karr's NBCC nominated memoir of her East Texas childhood is a blackly comic tale of a family prone to alcoholism, violence and insanity. (May)
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Mary Karr, Author Viking Books $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-670-89274-7
Readers seduced by Karr's canny memoir of a childhood spent under the spell of a volatile, defiantly loving family in the Liar's Club can look forward to more exquisite writing in this sequel focusing on her adolescence in a dusty Texas town. Karr...
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Mary Karr, Author Viking Books $22.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-85053-2
Although Karr, a prize-winning poet (The Devil's Tour) survived a nightmarish childhood with a violent father and an alcoholic mother who married six times, she bears neither parent any animosity in this candid and humorous memoir. Karr and her...
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Mary Karr, Author Harper $25.99 (386p) ISBN 978-0-06-059698-9
Karr returns with her third account (after ""The Liar's Club"" and ""Cherry"") of her dark and drunken years as a newlywed and new mother, written to help her son get the whole tale of their early years together. Before she wrote memoirs, Karr was...
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Mary Karr. Harper, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-222306-7
Karr (The Liars’ Club), the author of three lauded memoirs, teaches a selective memoir writing graduate class at Syracuse University, and offers her wisdom in this instructive guide to the genre. Not only does Karr write exquisitely herself (and...
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Mary Karr, read by the author. , Harper Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 9780-06-193900-6
Karr performs her brave memoir about alcoholism, getting sober, and getting God in a confident Texas drawl. Readers familiar with The Liar's Club, Karr's account of her childhood will find parallels—her descent into alcoholism differs from her...
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