The liar's club : a memoir
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New York : Viking, c1995.
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320 pages ; 24 cm.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 KARR 1995
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 KARR 1995
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New York : Viking, c1995.
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"The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life." "But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her mother's unimaginable past threatens the family's very sanity. Mary Karr looks back through younger eyes to exorcise those demons: a mad, puritanical grandmother; a vast inheritance squandered in one year flat; endless emptied bottles; and the darknesses inflicted on an eight-year-old girl. This voice explodes with antic, wit, stripped of self-pity. Miraculously, it makes a journey into joy. Here is a "terrific family of liars redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth.""--BOOK JACKET

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Karr, M. (1995). The liar's club: a memoir . Viking.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Karr, Mary. 1995. The Liar's Club: A Memoir. Viking.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Karr, Mary. The Liar's Club: A Memoir Viking, 1995.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Karr, Mary. The Liar's Club: A Memoir Viking, 1995.

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