{"product_id":"liars-sarah-manguso-9781529062779","title":"Liars","description":"\u003cp\u003eA searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust' - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Painful and brilliant - I loved it' - Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either\/Or\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Manguso","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48340379435251,"sku":"9781529062779","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529062779.jpg?v=1767728208","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/liars-sarah-manguso-9781529062779","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}