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Liars
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) 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
“Is divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [Liars] pulses with a rare kind of anger, making it a compulsive, unforgettable read. Love stories, it seems, are out. Divorce as liberation? Very much in.”—Vogue
“A tour de force . . . Liars makes an old story fresh.”—NPR
“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A 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. 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.
As 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.
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.
What the critics say
“A furious, propulsive meditation on wifehood, motherhood and artistic ambition.”—NPR
“Makes stirring observations about marriage and identity.”—Time
“Painful and beautifully wrought. . . Manguso is a poet-novelist who knows brevity can whittle the sharpest knife.”—Vulture
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-10-08
Loved the ending, listen for it twice
Very relatable, deep, I had to relist to the ending to really get it, about the lying. Glad I did! Added a whole layer to this book.
She is doing 15 things for his one thing. Brilliant capture of that, keeping book short and sweet.
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- Erin
- 2024-09-03
Depressing, raw, infuriating to listen to as a woman
You want to shake the protagonist for the entirety of the book. I found this audiobook depressing as you move through the tragic and disrespectful relationship.
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