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.' - 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
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