Lit, a memoir, Mary Karr
Type
Label
Lit, a memoir, Mary Karr
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Lit
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
922542204
Responsibility statement
Mary Karr
Sub title
a memoir
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
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Karr, Mary -- Childhood and youth
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- Texas
- Recovering alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Family
- Texas -- Biography
- Alcoholism -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Mental health
Content
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject9
- Karr, Mary -- Childhood and youth
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Dysfunctional families -- Texas
- Recovering alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Family
- Texas -- Biography
- Alcoholism -- United States -- Case studies
- Karr, Mary -- Mental health
- Content1
- Mapped to2