{"product_id":"liars-sarah-manguso","title":"Liars (Sarah Manguso)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eAn unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust ' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Palace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be.' - Nick Hornby, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Manguso's \u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Painful and brilliant - I loved it' - Elif Batuman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSarah Manguso is the author of \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardians\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Kinds of Decay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHard to Admit and Harder to Escape\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSiste Viator\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Captain Lands in Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, and her books have been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e series, and her essays have appeared in in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing at institutions including Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Scripps College, and the University of Iowa. She lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838516273501,"sku":"K097597128","price":17.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9759712800001A.jpg?v=1788757202","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/liars-sarah-manguso","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}