She followed the book with a second memoir, Cherry (2000), about her late adolescence and early womanhood. Karr was encouraged to write her personal history by her friend Tobias Wolff, but has said she only took up the project when her marriage fell apart. It explores her deeply troubled childhood, most of which was spent in a gritty industrial section of Southeast Texas in the 1960s. Karr's memoir The Liars' Club, published in 1995, was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, and was named one of the year's best books. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club.
Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) She wanted a higher standard of life than the local average, and she feared destitution. #4 My mother was a teacher, and she would spend her mornings at a local college studying for her teaching certificate. I spent the summer reading the Edgar Rice Burroughs books, and I imagined running away to Africa to find a man like Tarzan. #3 I spent that summer reading, and I fell into a deep well of idleness, which was stifling. She had a Snoopy box purse that smelled like grated lemon peel and baby powder. She represented herself as both entitled to and surprised by her pampering. #2 Violet was beautiful and much loved by the general public. One night, the hamster nosed out of his poorly latched cage and scampered across the glowing iron surface of the gas heater, blistering the bottoms of his tiny pink feet. #1 Violet had a hamster and a miniature turtle who lived in a shallow plastic bowl under a palm tree with snap-on fronds. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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