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Abacus
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Mary Karr
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Wesleyan Univ Pr
Publication date
August 1, 1987
Pages
57
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780819511348
ISBN-10
081951134X
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Out of Print
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$10.95
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university press
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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder | Tropic of Squalor: Poems | Now Go Out There (And Get Curious) | Cherry | Lit | Sinners Welcome | Devil's Tour
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder | Tropic of Squalor: Poems | Now Go Out There (And Get Curious) | Cherry | Lit | Sinners Welcome | Devil's Tour
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinner's Welcome (published by HarperCollins in 2006), Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. She has received The White Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Radcliffe Bunting Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry.
Her first memoir, The Liars Club (Penguin, 1995), received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for best first non-fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for more than a year and was named "Best Book of 1995" by more than thirty newspapers and magazines. The sequel, Cherry, (Viking, 2000) was excerpted in The New Yorker and appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and BookSense. It was named a Notable Book in The New York Times. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and lives in Syracuse and New York City.
Her first memoir, The Liars Club (Penguin, 1995), received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for best first non-fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for more than a year and was named "Best Book of 1995" by more than thirty newspapers and magazines. The sequel, Cherry, (Viking, 2000) was excerpted in The New Yorker and appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and BookSense. It was named a Notable Book in The New York Times. She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University and lives in Syracuse and New York City.
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Hardcover
from Wesleyan Univ Pr (September 1, 1987)
9780819521347 | details & prices | List price $12.95
Paperback
from Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr (February 9, 2007)
9780887484698 | details & prices | 52 pages | 5.25 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.25 lbs | List price $16.95
About: Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinner's Welcome (published by HarperCollins in 2006), Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus.
About: Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinner's Welcome (published by HarperCollins in 2006), Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus.
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from Wesleyan Univ Pr (August 1, 1987)
9780819511348 | details & prices | 57 pages | List price $10.95
About: Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinner's Welcome (published by HarperCollins in 2006), Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus.
About: Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinner's Welcome (published by HarperCollins in 2006), Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus.
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