{"product_id":"liars-a-novel","title":"Liars A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn “eviscerating” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from the author of \u003ci\u003eVery Cold People\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Town \u0026amp; Country, Lit Hub, \u003c\/i\u003eChicago Public Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Is divorce the new marriage plot? . . . [\u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.”—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A tour de force . . . \u003ci\u003eLiars\u003c\/i\u003e makes an old story fresh.”\u003cb\u003e—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A bracing story of a woman on the verge.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\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\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\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\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.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48362786291967,"sku":"*R0088409*","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/5402503482399.jpg?v=1775139769","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/liars-a-novel","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}