- Category: Books » Biography & Autobiography » Literary
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- Publisher: Penguin USA
- ISBN: 0141002077
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100547643
- Release Date: September 1, 2001
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #31761 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #738 in Biography & Autobiography (See Top 100 Biography & Autobiography Bestsellers)
- #7 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionReview"Mary Karr has created a natural sequel to her first memoir, tracing her adolescence with the same honesty and luminosity with which she limned her childhood. This honesty prevents her from embellishing the truth, adding a wonderfully self-deprecating tone....Where the first memoir was cathartic, CHERRY is merely devastating: 'Kids in distressed families are great repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.' In her two masterful memoirs, Mary Karr has had the courage to unfreeze those wastelands, speaking, I am sure, for many of her silent friends." "[S]he has a warm, lilting voice and a spiky intelligence; she uses phrases like 'broke-dick', 'wild-assed' and 'done drop the cheese off his cracker' (meaning 'he's crazy'). Fans of the first will certainly welcome the second...." "Ultimately, CHERRY lacks the heft and richness of THE LIARS' CLUB, because there's less shrimp in this batch of gumbo. One gets the feeling that Karr mined the best material from her past in the first book ('twas ever the sophomore lament), and that in CHERRY she inflates the significance of a relatively unremarkable part of her life to make it book-worthy. But Karr can render sentences so powerful as to make you bow your head in reverence. That's not enough to make this book awesomeùjust awesomely written. So read Cherry not for what happens but the magic in its retelling. " "Right now, in this remembrance of blooming, Karr continues to set the literary standard for making the personal universal." "Karr's talent doesn't depend on the specifics of her autobiography. She can turn even the most mundane events--a first kiss, an altercation with a school pricipal--into gorgeous prose." "[T]he book is written in remarkably fresh and vivid prose. Poetry. Whatever. CHERRY is a journey remarkably lived and told." Publisher's noteIn a follow-up to The Liars' Club, her bestselling memoir of her hardscrabble Texas childhood, the author details the tumultuous years of her adolescence, when she pursued her sexual awakening with a rebellious passion that linked her with outrageous men on the fringes of life. Simultaneous. Reprint. AnnotationMary Karr continues the story she began in THE LIARS' CLUB. In CHERRY, she writes about her rebellious adolescence, which included school troubles, sexual adventures, a stint in jail, and the collection of unusual fringe people she called her friends. If You Enjoy "Cherry (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Cherry (Paperback)" by Mary Karr (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Literary Bestsellers
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