{"product_id":"9781529062779","title":"Liars","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Manguso, Sarah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/05\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781529062779,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55287608770933,"sku":"9781529062779","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781529062779.jpg?v=1745051426","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.live\/products\/9781529062779","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}