{"product_id":"liars-by-sarah-manguso","title":"Liars By Sarah Manguso","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us all, from the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Painful and brilliant—I loved it.”—Elif Batuman, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA 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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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 joy and labor 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining the intensity of Elena Ferrante’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDays of Abandonment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the pithy wisdom of Jenny Offill’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDept of Speculation, Liars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":47513240862940,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":47513240895708,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/30_46d38602-df02-4be3-887a-ecf033adc413.png?v=1769784096","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/liars-by-sarah-manguso","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}