Sarah Manguso, Author . Four Way $14.95 (63p) ISBN 978-1-884800-69-6
The title's Latin translates as "traveler, halt," a traditional opening for inscriptions on gravestones; Manguso's enticing sophomore effort has both the gravity of epitaphs and enough oddity to halt readers in their tracks. Clearer...
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Sarah Manguso, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $22 (184p) ISBN 978-0-374-28012-3
In 1995, when Rome Prize–winning poet and fiction writer Manguso (Siste Viator
) was a junior at Harvard, she suffered the first attack of a rare autoimmune disease called CIDP, which would turn her body against itself. CIDP attacks the myelin
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Sarah Manguso. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-16724-0
In 2008, Harris Wulfson, Manguso’s longtime friend, walked out of a mental hospital and into the path of an oncoming train. It was two days before his body was identified. In this affecting narrative, poet and writer Manguso (The Two Kinds of Decay)
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Sarah Manguso. Graywolf, $20 (104p) ISBN 978-1-5559-7703-0
The subtitle of Manguso’s elegant, slim meditation is both deceptive and true. Though she despises endings—time, she reiterates, is not a journey from one fixed point to another but rather a never-ending continuum—she wants to explore what it means...
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Sarah Manguso. Graywolf, $14 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-55597-764-1
Manguso (Ongoingness) continues her fragmentary approach to autobiography with this inventive book of aphorisms and memories. All of life’s great subjects are here—love, relationships, happiness, desire, and vulnerability on the personal side;...
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Sarah Manguso. Hogarth, $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-24122-6
A solemn yet deeply empathic bildungsroman, Manguso’s debut novel (after the essay collection 300 Arguments) centers on a girl whose life unravels in a fictional Massachusetts town. The only child of a European Jewish mother and an Italian father,...
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Sarah Manguso. Hogarth, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-24125-7
The second novel from essayist and poet Manguso (after Very Cold People) paints an excoriating portrait of a marriage. In brisk prose, Manguso tells the story of John and Jane, who meet as emerging artists and discover, over the course of their 14-ye
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