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Liars Club

My father comes into focus for me on a Liars Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I cant but write it in the present tense.

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas

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My father comes into focus for me on a Liars Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I cant but write it in the present tense.

Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile & defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir & with a raw & often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, & a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars Club.

When it was published in 1995, The Liars Club raised the art of memoir to a new level & brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karrs warmth, intelligent humour & finely spun prose; The Liars Club is both heart-stopping & heart-felt.

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With over 300 UK stores and more than 40000 different products in store each year, The Works is Britain's top discount book store. A well known presence on the high street, The Works was founded in 1981 to bring affordable books to the public. It now offers a large range of exciting products, including arts and crafts products, toys, gifts and seasonal products, all at discounted prices, making it a superb place to find items for hobbies and gifts for all ages. The book selection includes children's books, fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects from food and drink and craft and DIY to entertainment, autobiographies and history. Art and crafts products range from children's craft sets to sewing materials and professional artists' brushes. As well as big brands, The Works also sells their own high quality branded products.
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