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S'està carregant… The Liars' Club: A Memoir (1995)de Mary Karr
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I know this is sort of a pinnacle of nonfiction - but I found it to be a bit boring and hard to follow. There were a few great short stories thrown into the bigger picture - but I am still not sure what the bigger picture is and lordy did it take forever to complete this book. I'd give it a 2.5/5 stars, but as that isn't an option, I rounded up. If you're a writer or a fan of nonfiction, this one is probably already on your radar. Otherwise, I'd recommend passing this one up completely. Emotionally raw and viscerally honest, Liars Club is exactly what we in the 21st century expect from a memoir: a personal recollection of events from a segment of a life, told in a way that makes a complete story. That this is what we expect, is precisely because Karr virtually invented the modern memoir with this book. Highly recommended. It must have been painful for the author to write this book, the way I feel when I think about writing out certain episodes of my life, and they thus remain locked in my head. This is about a family that lives in a small town in East Texas, close to the Louisiana border. If I thought my own family was dysfunctional, well this book makes my family look like The Sound of Music. Mama has mental illness, complicated by alcoholism, Dad is a macho who also drinks a lot. We don't find out till the ending why mama is screwed up, but it's truly a wonder that those two kids made it to adulthood. Well-written, it glides right along, and is hard to put down because you just want to find what is the next outlandish thing to happen to this family that will make you wince. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML:??Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.? ??Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr??s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation. 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 No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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"Der Club der Lügner" ist die wahre Geschichte der Mary (Madeleine) Karr, die nicht nur das Talent des Geschichtenerzählens von ihrem Vater geerbt hat, sondern auch die Fähigkeit immer wieder aufzustehen. Ganz egal, wie hart das Schicksal zuschlägt. ("The iron butterfly" auf lovelybooks.de)