Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harper, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 386 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780060596989
- 0060596988
- 9780061918131 (pbk.)
- 006191813X (pbk.)
- 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
- PS3561.A6929 Z4683 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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American Learning Resource | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | PS 3561.A6929 .L71 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 9ALRC201100235 |
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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