Author: Mary Karr File Type: mobi Amazon.com ReviewThe Liars Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karrs hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection. Karrs longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she cant outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in The Mental Marriott, with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet! has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober becoming a mother by letting go of a mother learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karrs relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. hrPhotos from Mary Karr(Click to Enlarge)Marys much adored oil-worker DaddyMarys artist mother, Charlie KarrMary, at 22, meeting poet Howard NemerovMary one month before visiting the Mental MarriottMary, age 17, with sister Lecia, age 19Mary and young son DevMary with family before her Leitchfield Liars Club readingMary celebrating the holidays with son DevMarys son, Dev Milburn, in 2009hrFrom Bookmarks MagazineReviewers agreed that while Karrs memoir could have succumbed to the pitfalls of the addiction-recovery memoir, it rises above the genre. Juicy, evocative, confessional, poetic, and often darkly humorous, Lit recounts Karrs dark past in an intimate, easy style. While critics considered Lit a seamless addition to her previous memoirs, some expressed surprise that it takes a religious turn. A few also commented that the memoir is tamer and less dramatic than Liars Club and that it contains some abstract sections about Karrs relationships. But in the end, Karrone of our finest memoiristsremains unswerving in her determination to face the past and, if possible, transcend it (San Francisco Chronicle). Amazon.com ReviewThe Liars Club brought to vivid, indelible life Mary Karrs hardscrabble Texas childhood. Cherry, her account of her adolescence, continued to set the literary standard for making the personal universal (Entertainment Weekly). Now Lit follows the self-professed blackbelt sinners descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and to her astonishing resurrection. Karrs longing for a solid family seems secure when her marriage to a handsome, Shakespeare-quoting blueblood poet produces a son they adore. But she cant outrun her apocalyptic past. She drinks herself into the same numbness that nearly devoured her charismatic but troubled mother, reaching the brink of suicide. A hair-raising stint in The Mental Marriott, with an oddball tribe of gurus and saviors, awakens her to the possibility of joy and leads her to an unlikely faith. Not since Saint Augustine cried, Give me chastity, Lord-but not yet! has a conversion story rung with such dark hilarity. Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober becoming a mother by letting go of a mother learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karrs relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up--as only Mary Karr can tell it. hrPhotos from Mary Karr(Click to Enlarge)Marys much adored oil-worker DaddyMarys artist mother, Charlie KarrMary, at 22, meeting poet Howard NemerovMary one month before visiting the Mental MarriottMary, age 17, with sister Lecia, age 19Mary and young son DevMary with family before her Leitchfield Liars Club readingMary celebrating the holidays with son DevMarys son, Dev Milburn, in 2009hrFrom Bookmarks MagazineReviewers agreed that while Karrs memoir could have succumbed to the pitfalls of the addiction-recovery memoir, it rises above the genre. Juicy, evocative, confessional, poetic, and often darkly humorous, Lit recounts Karrs dark past in an intimate, easy style. While critics considered Lit a seamless addition to her previous memoirs, some expressed surprise that it takes a religious turn. A few also commented that the memoir is tamer and less dramatic than Liars Club and that it contains some abstract sections about Karrs relationships. But in the end, Karrone of our finest memoiristsremains unswerving in her determination to face the past and, if possible, transcend it (San Francisco Chronicle).

Author: Peter Mason File Type: pdf In the Lives of Images, Peter Mason examines four striking case studies involving the production and transmission of visual images of non-European peoples. Beginning with what has been taken to be the earliest three-dimensional European representation of Native Americans, he then focuses on the migration of such images via 16th century Meso-American codices to the murals painted by Diego Rivera four centuries later. Mason also looks at the relationship between drawing and engraving of natives of Formosa by Georges Psalmanaazaar, who never traveled to that country. Finally, he examines representations of the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego, from their first encounters with Europeans in the late 16th century to the present, paying particular attention to their visual traces in the work of such well-known artists as Odilon Redon. Masons fascinating study teases out some of the implications of these particular cases to discover a concept of the image that is both primary and can truly be said to have a life of its own.