Lit, Mary Karr
Lit, Mary Karr
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Lit
A Memoir

Author: Mary Karr

Narrator: Mary Karr

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/26/2010

Synopsis

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 FinalistMary 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.""

About Mary Karr

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on September 27, 2023

Like Ron Rash and Thomas Hardy, Mary Karr writes dense, image-rich language with a poet’s flair. This is not stuff you speed-read past. Slow down, take a sip from whatever you’re drinking. Maybe read that paragraph again. Make sure there are no visions left behind. The language is a major part of th......more

Goodreads review by Meike on April 22, 2023

I know, I know: Mary Karr is a renowned memoirist, but frankly, I was pretty bored by this tale of alcoholism, redemption, and Catholic conversion (and I'm a Catholic myself). Karr gets married, drinks too much, she gets sober, her marriage breaks down, she finds God, the end. The language is very p......more

Goodreads review by mark on December 16, 2020

Who is Mary Karr? A memoirist—this is her third. She is now 57 years old. She is a professor of literature at Syracuse University. She is a published poet. She is a single mother. She is famous—given credit for the huge increase in the popularity of the memoir as reader fodder and consequently rich,......more

Goodreads review by Howard on September 10, 2023

3 Stars for Lit: A Memoir (audiobook) by Mary Karr read by the author. Before reading this I thought I’d read a book or two by Mary Karr but come to find out this is my first book by her. I have a couple of her books on my TBR list and now I’m wondering if this was a poor choice for me to start with......more

Goodreads review by Julie on August 01, 2016

Note - I read this for a book club. Not my choice. I do like memoirs, just not this sort. Mary Karr/Lit fans are a fiercely loyal group. And super intolerant of anyone who doesn't love her sort of memoir. I get it. Oy veh. Can we all just move on? Not going to reiterate any more the above two points......more

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