A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all. 'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace '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 A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I'd always ...
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A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all. 'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace '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 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. 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. 'Painful and brilliant - I loved it' - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or
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Liars by Sarah Manguso is a depressing story (no use sugarcoating it). We get to see how hopeless Jane felt thanks to her inconsiderate and selfish husband. The way it is written reminds me of a womanââ?¬â?¢s journal. It is composed of short scenes. The writing is choppy. Jane talks about meeting and marrying John (such original names), her job, his job, her unhappiness, and their child. Jane is a discontented woman (she makes that very clear). Janeââ?¬â?¢s son is called ââ?¬Å"the childââ?¬Â? throughout the book. Intimate relations are written about in graphic detail. Alcohol and drugs are consumed often (self-medicating). There is foul language as well. I made it through the book to discover an abysmal ending. Liars was lacking in character development and the setting (and so much more). Liars left me frustrated and down in the dumps (now I need something uplifting to read).
