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The Guardians: An Elegy - Manguso, Sarah
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In 2008, one of Sarah Manguso's oldest friends discharged himself from a New York City psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. In this new memoir, Manguso continues her attention to illness, suffering, and time's relentless forward momentum, which prevents total recovery from grief. As she did brilliantly in her first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, Manguso explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of ...

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The Guardians: An Elegy 2013, Picador USA, New York

ISBN-13: 9781250024152

Trade paperback

The Guardians: An Elegy 2013, Granta Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781847083111

Paperback

The Guardians: An Elegy 2012, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374167240

Hardcover

The Guardians: An Elegy 2012, Granta Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781847083104

Hardcover