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Sarah Manguso
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.
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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 Arguments
"Painful…
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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…
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An elegiac ode to love, death, and profound friendship, from the author of The Two Kinds of Decay.
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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 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…
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…
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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.
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A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of the most exciting literary non-fiction writers in the US.
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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…
Ongoingness is a beautiful, daring, honest and shifting work that grapples with writing, motherhood and time.
Jules Renard
Spanning 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, The Journal of Jules Renard is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence…
