Lit
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- 179,00 kr
Publisher Description
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award Finalist
Mary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her beloved and bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
Lit is about 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 story of how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it.
The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that “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."" The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir” and Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.""
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Poet Mary Karr completes her trilogy of memoirs with this haunting and emotional recounting of what happened to the East Texas tomboy of The Liars’ Club and the rebellious, questing young woman of Cherry: She made something of herself as a writer, teacher, and mother. But she also developed the same serious drinking problem that made growing up with her parents so difficult. Lit recounts all of this with the same unflinching honesty, wry humour, and simply gorgeous imagery as her earlier books. Even when she’s writing about painful subjects, like her physically and emotionally abusive relationship with author David Foster Wallace, there’s a sense of peace here, quite possibly as a result of both her hard-won sobriety and the wholly unexpected spiritual awakening she experienced afterward. Karr projects that same warmth and honesty in her unvarnished narration, making the audio version possibly even more moving.
