Mary Karr is een Amerikaanse auteur wier schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door rauwe eerlijkheid en een diepe betrokkenheid bij de menselijke ervaring. Haar werken, zowel poëzie als proza, duiken met onverschrokken precisie in de complexiteit van familie, geloof en persoonlijke zoektochten. Karr verzet zich tegen een overdadige stijl en pleit voor directe emotionele expressie en duidelijkheid, waardoor ze literatuur creëert die zowel meeslepend als tot nadenken stemmend is. Haar onderscheidende stem resoneert met lezers die op zoek zijn naar authenticiteit en diepgang in hun literaire reizen.
The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars' Club' and Cherry' - a memoir about a self-professed `blackbelt sinner's' descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection.
Karr navigates her psychological and physical awakening by clashing with authority, moving between the principal's office and jail. Yearning for love and companionship, she aligns herself with a wild group, reflecting her teenage desires.
The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her mother's unimaginable past threatens the family's very sanity. Mary Karr looks back through younger eyes to exorcise those demons: a mad, puritanical grandmother; a vast inheritance squandered in one year flat; endless emptied bottles; and the darknesses inflicted on an eight-year-old girl. This voice explodes with antic, wit, stripped of self-pity. Miraculously, it makes a journey into joy. Here is a "terrific family of liars redeemed by a slow unearthing of truth."
A stunning debut from the winner of the National Poetry Series In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that place; his poems express a longing and a searching for peace, for home, for beauty, for escape. These poems constitute a lament, whether they concern themselves with the difficulties of assimilation or the question of whether it is possible for people to live with one another in a spirit of true understanding. They prove that the physical and the metaphysical can share residence, can even be one and the same.
Unvergessen ist Leechfield, das kleine Kaff, in dem die junge Mary Anfang der Sechzigerjahre groß wurde. Einfach war es für Mary noch nie, denn die bornierten Nachbarn in Leechfield beäugten ihre exzentrische Familie stets mit Argwohn. Und auch als Mary heranwächst, spürt die rebellische junge Frau mehr und mehr, dass sie in der bedrückenden Enge der Kleinstadt nicht atmen, nicht leben kann. Sie ist entschlossen aufzubrechen in eine neue, freiere Welt - dorthin, wo lange Straßen und weite Meere auf sie warten...§Ein hinreißend ehrlicher und zugleich poetischer Blick in die Seele einer jungen Frau, die sich trotz aller Hindernisse nicht davon abhalten lässt, ihre Träume zu verwirklichen!§