Cherry (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Karr
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1967-1972
- Setting: A small town in east Texas
- Principal Characters: Mary, Charlie, Peter, Lecia, Clarice, John Cleary, Phil, Meredith Bright
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, 1970’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Mental illness, Texas
- Locales: Texas
In Cherry, the sequel to her extremely successful memoir The Liar’s Club (1995), Mary Karr beautifully re-creates the emotionally charged atmosphere of adolescence. Complete with crushes, first kisses, social humiliation, and even sex, drugs, and rock and roll, this memoir captures the essence of growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Karr tackles the too rarely explored world of a young girl’s most private thoughts and feelings with an unusual sensitivity and a poet’s language that allows her to reinhabit, for a time, her teenaged self. Cherry offers enough...
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