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The author, a prize-winning poet and critic, looks back at her upbringing in a swampy East Texas refinery town. She recalls her painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip into psychosis; a fist-swinging father who spun tales with his cronies--dubbed the Liars' Club; and a neighborhood rape when she was eight. #4 on The New York Times ' list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet ' s ear. --Oprah.com The Liars' Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's--a hard-drinking daddy, a sister who can talk down the sheriff at age twelve, and an oft-married mother whose accumulated secrets threaten to destroy them all. This unsentimental and profoundly moving account of an apocalyptic childhood is as funny, lively, and un-put-downable ( USA Today ) today as it ever was.
Probabil cea mai emoționantă carte pe care o vei citi vreodată, Sunt un copil al lui Dumnezeu celebrează viața unei fetițe orfane, a gardienilor săi adoptivi și a legăturii incredibile dintre aceștia, învățându-ne printr-un portret de o frumusețe devastatoare adevăratul sens al familiei.Chika Jeune
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Rick Bragg's All Over But the Shouting, Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric, and severely misguided family. Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody
