Liars
Liars
Liars
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Description
Description
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. 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.
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About the Author
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A furious, propulsive meditation on wifehood, motherhood and artistic ambition."--NPR
"Makes stirring observations about marriage and identity."--Time
"Painful and beautifully wrought. . . Manguso is a poet-novelist who knows brevity can whittle the sharpest knife."--Vulture
"Gorgeously written, eminently readable . . . Manguso's latest is a story wholly and brilliantly told."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Liars seethes with rage. Manguso is a masterful sentence writer and a brutally honest surveyor of the disadvantages women endure."--Los Angeles Times
"Devastating and clarifying . . . Liars will leave a puncture wound."--The Rumpus
"Manguso [is] the kind of writer capable of walloping you with an insight when you least expect it."--Romper
"Painful and brilliant--I loved it."--Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or
"Powerful . . . 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, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace
"I couldn't put it down. An astounding feat, spanning a fourteen-year marriage with concision and specificity . . . It sliced all the way through me. So many women will connect with this book."--Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
"A triumph and a revelation . . . Despite its title, this might be the most honest marriage novel I have ever read. Sarah Manguso's writing is furious, elegant, bitter, tender, frightening, and deeply funny. I loved this book."--Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
"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 and Just Like You
"I read Liars in one breathless, refuse-to-be-interrupted sitting. I was walloped on every page."--Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"Shocking and captivating."--Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
"Liars is a crime novel, except the crime is heterosexual marriage. It's a whodunit and the villain is the patriarchy. . . . A brilliantly paced, gripping novel of love and betrayal."--Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife
"An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it."--Myriam Gurba, author of Creep
"From the first page I was spellbound. This book deserves to be read and reread again to fully absorb its primal power and truth."--Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes
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