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Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.

Karr, Mary. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780060596989 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 0060596988 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780061939006
  • ISBN: 0061939005
  • Physical Description: x, 386 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Harper, [2009]
Subject: Karr, Mary > Mental health.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
Recovering alcoholics > United States > Biography.
Mental illness > United States > Case studies.
Alcoholism > United States > Case studies.
Karr, Mary > Childhood and youth.
Karr, Mary > Family.
Dysfunctional families > Texas.
Texas > Biography

Available copies

  • 4 of 5 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Harney County Public Libraries.
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