In 2008, one of Sarah Manguso's oldest friends discharged himself from a New York City psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. In this new memoir, Manguso continues her attention to illness, suffering, and time's relentless forward momentum, which prevents total recovery from grief. As she did brilliantly in her first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, Manguso explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of anything at all.
| ISBN: | 9781847083111 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2013 |
| Author: | Sarah Manguso |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs Autobiography: writers Coping with / advice about death and bereavement |
In 2008, one of Sarah Manguso's oldest friends discharged himself from a New York City psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. In this new memoir, Manguso continues her attention to illness, suffering, and time's relentless forward momentum, which prevents total recovery from grief. As she did brilliantly in her first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, Manguso explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of anything at all.
The Guardians features in the following genres: Memoirs, Autobiography: writers, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
The Guardians is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Guardians was written by Sarah Manguso and published by Granta Books
The Guardians has 128 pages