The Guardians An Elegy for a Friend |
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| Author:
| Manguso, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-1-250-02415-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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"An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night," reported the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press. This man was named Harris, and The Guardians--written in the years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and ended his life--is Sarah Manguso's heartbreaking elegy. Harris was a man who "played music, wrote software, wrote music, learned to drive, went to college, went to bed with girls." In...
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"An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night," reported the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press. This man was named Harris, and The Guardians--written in the years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and ended his life--is Sarah Manguso's heartbreaking elegy.
Harris was a man who "played music, wrote software, wrote music, learned to drive, went to college, went to bed with girls." In The Guardians, Manguso grieves not for family or for a lover, but for a best friend. With startling humor and candor, she paints a portrait of a friendship between a man and a woman--in all its unexpected detail--and shows that love and grief do not always take the shapes we expect them to.