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The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Full title: | The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend |
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ISBN: | 9781250024152 |
ISBN 10: | 1250024153 |
Authors: | Manguso, Sarah |
Publisher: | Picador |
Num. pages: | 128 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2013 |
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Synopsis
“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.