Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.
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TextPublisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 2010Copyright date: ©2009Edition: First Harper Perennial editionDescription: xii, 386 pages, 20 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780060596996 (pbk.)
- 0060596996 (pbk.)
- Karr, Mary -- Mental health
- Karr, Mary -- Childhood and youth
- Karr, Mary -- Family
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Recovering alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies
- Alcoholism -- United States -- Case studies
- Dysfunctional families -- Texas
- Texas -- Biography
- 811.54 22 KAR
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| 811.3 ROB The poems of Herman Melville / | 811.52 SIB May Sarton / | 811.54 CAR Always reckoning and other poems / | 811.54 KAR Lit : a memoir / | 811.54 KAR Lit : a memoir / | 812.11 EDD The Rivan codex / | 813 ACH The lobster gangs of Maine / |
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Harper, 2009.
Includes P.S. Insights, interviews & more: information about and interview with the author, other titles by the author, and the author's list of recommended nonfiction.
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety.
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