Liars by Sarah Manguso
A searing and unflinching novel about marriage and how it makes liars out of us all. For fans of Jenny Offills Dept. of Speculation, Elena Ferrantes The Days of Abandonment and Claire Messuds The Woman Upstairs.
Liars is an unflagging and acridly funny assault on that story [of a happy marriage], but also a formally canny study of how such tales get told — and how fragile our replacements may turn out * New York Times *
Painful and brilliant—I loved it -- Elif Batuman, author The Idiot and Either/Or
A triumph and a revelation. . 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, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
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 . . . 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
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 -- Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes
An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it -- Myriam Gurba, author of Creep
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
Liars is a crime novel. Except the crime is heterosexual marriage. It’s a whodunit and the villain is the patriarchy. . . . A brilliantly paced, gripping novel of love and betrayal -- Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife
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 -- Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
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, 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, Fever Pitch and About a Boy
Painful and brilliant—I loved it -- Elif Batuman, author The Idiot and Either/Or
A triumph and a revelation. . 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, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
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 . . . 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
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 -- Emily Gould, author of Friendship and Perfect Tunes
An exquisitely creepy book about one of our most horrifying institutions: marriage. I quickly devoured it and loved it -- Myriam Gurba, author of Creep
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
Liars is a crime novel. Except the crime is heterosexual marriage. It’s a whodunit and the villain is the patriarchy. . . . A brilliantly paced, gripping novel of love and betrayal -- Lyz Lenz, author of This American Ex-Wife
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 -- Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
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, 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, Fever Pitch and About a Boy
Sarah Manguso is the author of several books, including the novel Very Cold People, a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Her genre-defying work of aphoristic non-fiction, 300 Arguments, was named a best book of the year by more than twenty publications. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship and the Rome Prize. Her work is regularly featured across The New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine and The New Yorker, among others. She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles. Liars is her ninth book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529062779 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529062772 |
| Title | Liars |
| Author | Sarah Manguso |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2025-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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