by Mary Karr · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780060596996
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«Lit: A Memoir» is Mary Karr's memoir, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (432 pages, in English).
In 'Lit', Mary Karr recounts her descent into alcoholism, a stay in a psychiatric hospital, and the slow road to sobriety, while trying to be a mother and a writer. Her marriage to a poet, her relationship with her mother, and her family past intertwine in a story of recovery and faith, told with honesty and humour.
Third memoir by Mary Karr after The Liars' Club and Cherry; it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the autobiography category.
For readers of memoirs about addiction, motherhood, and overcoming, and for those who follow Mary Karr's autobiographical career.
Mary Karr is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas. She is widely noted for her 1995 bestselling memoir The Liars' Club. Karr is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.
