Description
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.Author: Sarah Manguso
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 111
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781250024152
ISBN10: 1250024153
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
About the Author
Sarah Manguso is the author of a memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay; two books of poetry, Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise; and a short-story collection, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape.
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