{"product_id":"liars-club-by-mary-karr","title":"The Liars Club by Mary Karr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishing...One of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years\" - \"New York Times\". Mary Karr, a prize-winning poet and critic, grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile, defiantly loving family. In this keen and funny memoir, she looks back at a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over in psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club; and a neighbourhood rape when she eight. Karr paints her terrific family of liars and drunks with a raw authenticity stripped of self-pity. At times harrowing, her story is redeemed by warmth, intelligence and finelyspun, ardent prose. \"Adazzling, devasting memoir...She paints an unsparing portrait of her struggle through a fractured childhood. Recounting one apocalyptic event after another, Karr's voice never falters or rings false\" - \"Vogue\". \"The facts are harrowing, yet their narration - which crackles with wry humour, affection and defiance - is not...A funny, moving, astonishing book\" - \"Spectator\". \"Any evocation of a childhood that achieves a genuinely Proustian quality, but with short sentences and more laughs, has to be read...a breathtakingly shrewd and loving memoir\" - \"Independent\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44137491988554,"sku":"6967bc","price":7.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6967bc_bdfac432-55f3-46f9-a0fe-191cd9f55b76.jpg?v=1788162533","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/liars-club-by-mary-karr","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}