description: This memoir of growing up poor in a Texas refinery town is from a time long gone but from a place that feels eternally rural south. A handful of the town's workers gather regularly to drink salted beer and spin tall-tales. They're the Liar's Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion, they exude a glamour that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies, darker, mmore hidden. A mad, puritanical grandmother; a vast inheritance squandered in a single year; endless emptied bottles; and the abuses inflicted on an eight-year-old girl -- these are the demons that the author must exorcise. Felled with wit and stripped of any self-pity, THE LIAR'CLUB is a contemporary classic. (from the jacket).
language: English
title: The Liars' Club
titlecomplete: The Liars' Club
genres: Womens, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Book Club, Coming Of Age, Adult, Southern, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 67307
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction Writers, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.