{"product_id":"9781529062779","title":"Liars","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Manguso, Sarah\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 15 May 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 198 x 18 | 192g\u003cp\u003eA searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 FidelityA 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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Painful and brilliant – I loved it' – Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either\/Or\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manguso, Sarah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52388951097528,"sku":"9781529062779","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529062779.jpg?v=1765899967","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529062779","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}