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LoveReading Says
Oh so fierce and yet weepingly vulnerable, this novel bares its soul as it searches emotional connections and failings within a family. Jane begins her marriage with hope, yet finds herself consumed by her husband’s ambition. Sarah Manguso writes with the most beautiful eloquence. It felt as though Jane’s thoughts were dropping straight from her mind onto the page, each one building, piece by piece, to form a whole. While on occasion reading this novel almost hurt, it didn’t overwhelm and I simply couldn’t put it down. There is an incredible intimacy, I was a part of Jane and I ached for her bruised and battered emotions. This is a relationship tale that roars with defiance. The ending felt triumphant, and not only is this a Liz Pick of the Month, it has also been awarded a LoveReading Star Book. Liars burns with an intense heat as it dissects a shattered relationship, highly recommended.
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Liars Synopsis
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.
A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always known that. But I'd never suspected how easily I'd fall into one anyway.
When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including - a few years later - all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it's not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John's ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.
As Jane's career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Throughout the upheavals of family life, Jane tries to hold it all together. That is, until John leaves her.
Sarah Manguso's Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage, telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, and of a woman rising inexorably from its ashes.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781529062762 |
| Publication date: |
22nd August 2024 |
| Author: |
Sarah Manguso |
| Publisher: |
Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
272 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Literary Fiction
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Press Reviews
Sarah Manguso Press Reviews
'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust - the resentments and disappointments that can rot the heart' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace
'A white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be. Any spouse that has ever argued about money, time, work and childcare should read it' - Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity
'Painful and brilliant - I loved it' - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or
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About Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is an American writer and poet. Her short story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007), was included with story collections by Dave Eggers and Deb Olin Unferth in McSweeney's One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box. Her poetry collections are Siste Viator (2006) and The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002). Her poetry has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Pushcart Prize annual, and three volumes of the Best American Poetry series. Honors for her writing include a Hodder Fellowship and the Rome Prize. She has served on the faculty of the graduate writing programs at Columbia and the New School. She lives in Brooklyn.
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