{"product_id":"liars-by-sarah-manguso-9781529062762","title":"Liars","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\u003cem\u003eAn unflinchingly true and honest depiction of a marriage turning from gold to dust - the resentments and disappointments that can rot the heart\u003c\/em\u003e - Miranda Cowley Heller, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Paper Palace\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 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\u003c\/em\u003e - Nick Hornby, author of \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e\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 labours 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 \u003cem\u003eLiars\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePainful and brilliant - I loved it\u003c\/em\u003e - Elif Batuman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242853282028,"sku":"9781529062762","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529062762-liars-1.jpg?v=1787977256","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/liars-by-sarah-manguso-9781529062762","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}