Liars: A Novel

ISBN: 0593241258

Author: Manguso, Sarah

Condition: New

An eviscerating (The New York Times) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all-from the author of Very Cold People and 300 ArgumentsFINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, Lit Hub, Chicago Public LibraryIs divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [Liars] pulses with a rare kind of anger, making it a compulsive, unforgettable read. Love stories, it seems, are out. Divorce as liberation? Very much in.-VogueA tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh.-NPRA bracing story of a woman on the verge.-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. Id always known that. But Id never suspected how easily Id 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 its not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by Johns ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.As Janes 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.