Mary Karr

For its twentieth anniversary, a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition of Mary Karr s pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, with a new foreword by Lena Dunham One of the12 Best Book Covers of 2015, as chosen by the art director of"The New York Times Book Review" When it was first published twenty years ago, "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. Now in a stunning Penguin Classics Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lena Dunham a creative game changer in her own right 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. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators."