{"product_id":"9781555979591","title":"300 Arguments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere will come a time when people decide you’ve had enough of your grief, and they’ll try to take it away from you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad art is from no one to no one.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAm I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you whether you are.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThank  heaven I don’t have my friends’ problems. But sometimes I notice an  expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI  read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action  movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy:  I’ll escape the worst of it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—from \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA “Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e),  Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today. To  read her work is to witness acrobatic acts of compression in the service  of extraordinary psychological and spiritual insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e,  a foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing, is at  first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms. But, as in the work of  David Markson, the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement  that steadily gathers power. Manguso’s arguments about desire, ambition,  relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and  they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128608899312,"sku":"9781555979591","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979591_p0.jpg?v=1763760971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979591","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}