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A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of Very Cold People and 300 ArgumentsA 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. Whe...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times“Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...

Acclaimed writer Sarah Manguso makes her fiction debut with an icy, furious novel about the way in which a society can ignore and enable the abuse of young women, narrated by the daughter of just such an abusive mother.

Acclaimed writer Sarah Manguso makes her fiction debut with an icy, furious novel about the way in which a society can ignore and enable the abuse of young women, narrated by the daughter of just such an abusive mother.

The much-anticipated debut novel from the author of 300 Arguments: a shattering account of growing up and out of the suffocating constraints of small-town America.For Ruthie, the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. But this is no picturesque New England. Once "home of the bean and the cod, where Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God, " by the tail-end of the twentieth century i...

‘Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin. . . A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.’ Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere‘300 Arguments shook me. It’s dark, but the darkness comes from a refusal to look away. Its humor is wounded but present. Is it possibly a sort of novel? The writer says somewhere, “This bookis the good sentences from the novel ...

Sarah Manguso ha sempre tenuto un diario. Per venticinque anni, il diario è stata la risposta al dilemma della memoria e alla paura di svanire nel nulla. Come lasciar scorrere il tempo senza perdere ogni singolo istante? Come prestare davvero attenzione e trovare il senso della vita? Poi, la vita le ha suggerito le cose: il matrimonio, la maternità, un figlio, le perdite, l'arte, la scrittura. E il diario si è sciolto e ricomposto in questo li...

At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralysing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life and then, furiously, to expect everything. In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, mult...

Gli piaceva il pesce bianco mantecato. Gli piaceva bere il Manhattan. Era saltato davanti al treno, fine della storia". Il 23 luglio 2008, a New York, Harris J. Wulfson si getta sotto un treno della metro. Harris amava la musica e le donne, aveva un lavoro, un amore e una vita piena, a tratti felice. Soffriva, però, di episodi psicotici, ed è dopo uno di questi che fugge dall'ospedale dove è ricoverato e si lancia nel bagliore di un treno in a...

The Guardians" is an elegy for Manguso's friend Harris, written two years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and jumped under a train. The narrative contemplates with unrelenting clarity their crowded post-college apartment, Manguso's fellowship year in Rome, Harris's death and the year that followed--the year of mourning and the year of Manguso's marriage.

Eine Geschichte über eine tückische Autoimmunkrankheit, ein Jahrzehnt von wiederkehrender Paralyse, kollabierten Venen, Halskathetern, dem Tod von Freunden und Fremden, Depression und Abhängigkeit und somit von abgedroschenen Metaphern für lange Krankheit. Könnte man denken. Doch entgegen den Klischees macht die Krankheit die Autorin nicht zu einem besseren Menschen. Vielleicht zu einem mit größerem Introspektionsvermögen. Eine nüchterne, präz...

An elegiac ode to love, death, and profound friendship, from the author of The Two Kinds of Decay

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[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." -The New YorkerIn Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, " she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something...

Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin....A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us."-Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you. Bad art is from no one to no one. Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I'll tell you wheth...

This book is for those of us who want to read more poetry but are frequently stopped by its--what is it? Its chilly self-seriousness? Its unwillingness to hold our hand every so often, while cracking an easy joke? Either way, Sarah Manguso, like her spiritual siblings David Berman and Tony Hoagland, is a friendly kind of savior and guide. Her writing is gorgeous and cerebral (imagine Anne Carson) but she doesn't skimp on the wit (imagine Anne ...

Poetry. Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and ideas. The poems are accessible yet cryptic, and the voice is consistently spare, honest, understated and eccentric.

At 21, Manguso was faced with a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly, paralyzing her for weeks at a time. In this captivating story, she recalls her nine-year struggle with arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, addiction, and depression.