Liars
A Novel
by Sarah Manguso
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Pub Date Jul 23 2024 | Archive Date Oct 31 2024
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Description
“Is 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.”—Vogue
“A tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh.”—NPR
“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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.
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.
Advance Praise
“Painful and brilliant – I loved it.”
—Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or
“Shocking and captivating.”
—Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
"Liars is 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, bestselling author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
"I couldn't put it down. An astounding feat. . . spanning a fourteen year marriage with concision and specificity. So many women will connect with this book. It sliced all the way through me. Also, fuck John! I hate him.”
—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
“An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it.”
—Myriam Gurba, author of Creep
“I read Liars in one breathless, refuse-to-be-interrupted sitting. I was walloped on every page—by the painful familiarity of the story, by the all-at-onceness of the life described in these pages, by the brilliance of Manguso’s storytelling. No one does concision and juxtaposition better than Sarah Manguso. I furiously underlined passages and spoke aloud into an empty room as I read: oof and yes and hell no! I’m going to be returning to—and learning from—this book for years.”
—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“From the first page I was spellbound, entranced by Sarah Manguso's deceptively simple but fathoms-deep storytelling. There's an incredible force that underlies this work, propulsive and wild and a little bit scary. 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
“Intimate and fierce, Liars is a portrait of a marriage corroded by creative envy and a searing examination of the cost of literary ambition.”
—Isabel Kaplan, author of NSFW: A Novel and the viral online essay ‘My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer’
“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
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780593241257 |
| PRICE | $28.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
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