Lit - A Memoir

Mary Karr''s third memoir, Lit, tells her tale of getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr''s relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying coming-of-age story. Karr, the self-professed blackbelt sinner, painstakingly reveals her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness-and her astonishing resurrection. ''[Lit] Reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art.''-Rebecca Steinitz, Boston Globe

About the author

Mary Karr is the author of three award-winning, bestselling memoirs: The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as The Art of Memoir, also a New York Times bestseller. She received Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships for poetry and is the Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Karr
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2010
• EAN: 9780060596996
• ISBN: 978-0-06-059699-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, SELF-HELP: Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: MEMOIR AMERICAN VOICES, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Dysfunctional Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Education, POETRY: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY