{"product_id":"the-liars-club-isbn-9780143107798","title":"The Liars' Club","description":"\u003cb\u003e#4 on \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation—now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in celebration of its twentieth anniversary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es ear.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eOprah.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/i\u003e 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” (\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e) today as it ever was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.“For a certain group of twenty-something women, consumption of, and passion for, \u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/i\u003e is both a rite of passage and a mode of self-identification. . . . I am lucky I was eight when this book was published. I am lucky I grew up in a world where it colored people’s reactions to personal stories, \u003ci\u003efemale \u003c\/i\u003estories. We all are. Because \u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/i\u003e is more than an account of a tattered childhood and one brave and brilliant woman’s attempt to use it rather than deny it. It is an aggressive tap on the shoulder in a crowded room, a smiling funny face asking its readers: ‘Wanna be friends?’ ” —\u003cb\u003eLena Dunham, from the Foreword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The essential American story . . . A great pleasure to read.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Astonishing . . . one of the most dazzling and moving memoirs to come along in years . . . [Karr’s] most powerful tool is her language, which she wields with the virtuosity of both a lyric poet and an earthy, down-home Texan. It’s a wonderfully unsentimental vision.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is what the memoir is supposed to be.” —\u003cb\u003eStephen King, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is so good I thought about sending it out for a backup opinion. . . . It’s like finding Beethoven in Hoboken. To have a poet’s precision of language and a poet’s insight into people applied to one of the roughest, toughest, ugliest places in America is an astonishing event.” —\u003cb\u003eMolly Ivins, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Overflows with sparkling wit and humor . . . Truth beats powerfully at the heart of this dazzling memoir.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Karr lovingly retells [her parents’] best lies and drunken extravagances with an ear for bar-stool phraseology and a winking eye for image. The revelations continue to the final page, with a misleading carelessness as seductive as any world-class liar’s.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Karr has drawn black gold from the [Texan] mud.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Karr’s God-awful childhood has a calamitous appeal. The choice in the book is between howling misery and howling laughter, and the reader veers toward laughter. Karr has survived to write a drop-dead reply to the question, ‘Ma, what was it like when you were a little girl?’ ” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Mary Karr is a phoenix. That she arose from any fire to create poetry says as much about poetry as it does about Mary Karr.” —\u003cb\u003eMary-Louise Parker on her favorite memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club, \u003c\/i\u003ein \u003ci\u003eLadies’ Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Karr \u003c\/b\u003ekick-started a memoir revolution with \u003ci\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller for over a year, a best book of the year for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e People\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has won the Whiting Award, Radcliffe’s Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and she has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her other bestselling books include \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Memoir, \u003c\/i\u003ethe memoirs \u003ci\u003eLit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCherry, \u003c\/i\u003eand the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eSinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil’s Tour, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAbacus. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, Karr lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLena Dunham \u003c\/b\u003e(foreword) is the creator of the critically acclaimed HBO series \u003ci\u003eGirls\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling essay collection \u003ci\u003eNot That Kind of Girl.\u003c\/i\u003e A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eshe lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Rea\u003c\/b\u003e (cover illustrator) is the longtime illustrator for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e’ “Modern Love” column and a former art director for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e op-ed page. His design clients include Kate Spade, Honda, Billabong, Herman Miller, and MTV. Rea lives in Los Angeles.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303948800229,"sku":"NP9780143107798","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143107798.jpg?v=1767740217","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-liars-club-isbn-9780143107798","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}