![]() ![]() She comes to this universal event with personal baggage she has already declared. But she couldn't see that when it came to ordinariness, she hardly seemed the woman for the job.Īs anyone who has read The Liar's Club will know, Karr was raped before she was 10, and her babysitter forced her to give him a blow-job. So the memoirist in Karr set out to write about the ordinary process of losing one's virginity. Where her own writing is concerned, her perspective seems to shift uncomfortably between critical distance and self-absorption.įor example, the critic in Karr describes writing Cherry in response to a gap in the market: there are coming-of-age memoirs written by men, but 'women don't write about sexual activity between the ages of 12 and 18 - unless it's aberrant'. She also holds a chair in English literature at Syracuse University in New York State. Mary Karr makes a living out of transferring her life onto the page. ![]()
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