Lit, a memoir, Mary Karr
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Classification
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Creator
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Subject
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- Karr, Mary -- Childhood and youth
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- Texas
- Recovering alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Family
- Texas -- Biography
- Alcoholism -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Mental health
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Label
Lit, a memoir, Mary Karr
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Lit
Oclc number
503074934
Responsibility statement
Mary Karr
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
The author reveals how, shortly after giving birth to a child she adored, she drank herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide before a spiritual awakening led her to sobriety
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