Liars

Beschreibung

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.<BR><BR>'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace<BR><BR>'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<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>'Painful and brilliant - I loved it' - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

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