The Guardians: An Elegy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250024152)

"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
ISBN-10: 1250024153
ISBN-13: 9781250024152
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d