{"product_id":"300-arguments-essays","title":"300 Arguments: Essays","description":"“Jam-packed with insights you’ll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin….A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.”―Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere\n\nThere will come a time when people decide you’ve had enough of your grief, and they’ll try to take it away from you.\n\nBad art is from no one to no one.\n\nAm I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you whether you are.\n\nThank 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.\n\nI 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.\n\n―from 300 Arguments\n\nA “Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis” (Kirkus Reviews), 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.\n\n300 Arguments, 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1555977642\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1555977642.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Manguso, Sarah\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43333435949117,"sku":"BVV.1555977642.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1555977642-0.jpg?v=1783631849","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/300-arguments-essays","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}