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Lit : a memoir / Mary Karr.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.A6929 Z4683 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karr, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Karr, Mary--Mental health.
- Karr, Mary.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Families.
- Alcoholism.
- Mental illness.
- Recovering alcoholics.
- Mental health.
- United States.
- 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.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Texas.
- Texas--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 386 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, [2009]
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780060596989
- 0060596988
- 9780061939006
- 0061939005
- OCLC:
- 310399120
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