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Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Nonfiction.
HTML:??Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.? ??Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr??s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
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… (meer)
Het boek was in het begin wel redelijk boeiend, maar er leek maar geen einde aan te komen. Vooral de fase waarin de schrijfster (de ik-persoon) inmiddels volwassen is. Het taalgebruik is kleurrijk en gedetailleerd, de auteur weet de sfeer of situatie vaak goed weer te geven. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
We have our secrets and our needs to confess. We may remember how, in childhood, adults were able at first to look right through us, and into us, and what an accomplishment it was when we, in fear and trembling, could tell our first lie, and make, for ourselves, the discovery that we are irredeemably alone in certain respects, and know that within the territory of ourselves, there can only be our own footprints. -R.D. Laing, The Divided Self
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For Charlie Marie Moore Karr and J.P. Karr who taught me to love books and stories, respectively
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
My sharpest memory is of a single instant surrounded by dark.
Not long before my mother died, the tile guy redoing her kitchen pried from the wall a tile with an unlikely round hole in it. -Introduction, December 2004
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Still, the image pleases me enough: to slip from the body's tight container and into some luminous womb, gliding there without effort till the distant shapes grow brighter and more familiar, till all your beloveds hover before you, their lit arms held out in welcome.
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Nonfiction.
HTML:??Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet's ear.? ??Oprah.com The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of Mary Karr??s hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation.
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
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