{"product_id":"liars-3","title":"Liars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eAn unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust '' – Miranda Cowley Heller, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Palace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A white-hot dissection of the power imbalances in a marriage, and as gripping as you want fiction to be.'' – Nick Hornby, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Manguso''s \u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Painful and brilliant – I loved it'' – Elif Batuman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400174739838,"sku":"NW9781529062762","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529062762.jpg?v=1778631494","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/liars-3","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}