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 ndash Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceA whitehot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be. ndash Nick Hornby, author of High FidelityA nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. Irsquod always known that. But Irsquod never suspected how easily Irsquod 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 ndash a few years later ndash all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But itrsquos not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by Johnrsquos ambitions, whims, and ego in short, she becomes a wife.As Janersquos 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 Mangusos 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 ndash I loved it ndash Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot and Either/Or

Binding: Hardcover;128 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FA; Weight: 454 g; Dimensions: 207 x 139 x 26

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