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Very cold people

Manguso, Sarah, 1974-2022
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No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on the outskirts of an affluent but threadbare New England township, on the outer edge of popularity. She doesn't necessarily understand what she is seeing, but she records faithfully and with absolute clarity the unfurling of her awkward youth, under even more awkward parenting. As they alternately mock, ignore, undermine and discount their daughter, Ruth's parents present now as damaged, now as inadequate, now as monstrous. All the while the Future comes towards them all, steadily, inexorably, for some of them fatally.
Main title:
Very cold people / Sarah Manguso.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2022.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781529055283 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3613.A54
Local class:
AFF
Language:
English
BRN:
3062012
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