Liars
22 August 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
22 August 2024
272 pages
9781529062762
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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 outThe New York Times
Painful and brilliant—I loved itElif 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 bookClaire 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 yearsMaggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful