Lit: A Memoir - Brossura

Karr, Mary

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ISBN 10: 0060596996 ISBN 13: 9780060596996

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2010

Riassunto

The best-selling author of The Liar's Club reveals a new piece of her life during which, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a surprising spiritual awakening led her to sobriety. Reprint. A best-selling memoir.

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“Irresistible. . . . [Written] with trademark wit, precision, and unfailing courage.” (Pam Houston, O Magazine)

“Mary Karr restores memoir form’s dignity with Lit.” (Vanity Fair)

“Riveting.” (Redbook Magazine)

“Mary Karr sparked a memoir revival with The Liars’ Club―now she’s back with Lit to describe how she turned those early troubles into literary gold.” (Body + Soul)

“An absolute gem that secures Karr’s place as one of the best memoirists of her generation. . . . [She] writes with a singular combination of poetic grace and Texan verve.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

“[Karr’s] poetic sensibility infuses every sentence of her story with an alliterative and symbolic energy, conjuring echoes of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, and occasionally, Sylvia Plath.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Her tale is riveting, her style clear-eyed and frank. That Karr survived the emotional and physical journey she regales her readers with to become the evenhanded, self-disciplined writer she is today is arguably nothing short of a miracle, and readers of her previous two books won’t be disappointed.” (Library Journal)

“Searing. . . . A book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go. . . . Chronicles with searching intelligence, humor and grace the author’s slow, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes painful discovery of her vocation and her voice as a poet and writer.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“Karr could tell you what’s on her grocery list, and its humor would make you bust a gut, its unexpected insights would make you think and her pitch-perfect command of our American vernacular might even take your breath away.... [Karr] holds the position of grande dame memoirista.” (Samantha Dunn, Los Angeles Times)

“In a gravelly, ground-glass-under-your-heel voice that can take you from laughter to awe in a few sentences, Karr has written the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.” (Susan Cheever, New York Times Book Review)

L'autore:

MARY KARR s first memoir, The Liars Club, kick-started a memoir revolution and won nonfiction prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, it rode high on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year, becoming an annual best book there and for The New Yorker, People, and Time. Recently Entertainment Weekly rated it number four in the top one hundred books of the past twenty-five years. Her second memoir, Cherry, which was excerpted in The New Yorker, also hit bestseller and notable book lists at the New York Times and dozens of other papers nationwide. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry, Karr has won Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays. Other grants include the Whiting Award and Radcliffe s Bunting Fellowship. She is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0060596996
• ISBN 13: 9780060596996
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 386