{"product_id":"300-arguments-9781509883325","title":"300 Arguments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThink of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book’s quotable passages.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e300 Arguments \u003c\/i\u003eby Sarah Manguso is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms, but the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. Manguso’s arguments about writing, desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature. Lines you will underline, write in notebooks and read to the person sitting next to you, that will drift back into your mind as you try to get to sleep.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e reads like you've jumped into someone's mind.' \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJam-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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery era has its wise aphorist.  Sarah Manguso is ours and joins Marcus Aurelius, Thomas à Kempis, Montaigne. -- Edmund White\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e shook me. It's dark, but the darkness comes from a refusal to look away. Its humor is wounded but present. Is it possibly a sort of novel? The writer says somewhere, 'This book is the good sentences from the novel I didn't write.' The idea holds up when applied, and the attentive reader will intuit an encompassing narrative. Sarah Manguso deserves many such readers. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan\u003cbr\u003eIf there were a literary equivalent of the debate as to who is the best pound-for-pound  boxer currently fighting, then word for word,  Sarah Manguso’s \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments \u003c\/i\u003e— weighing in at a mere  ninety  pages — would  surely emerge  as  one of the  smartest and  most  stimulating books of recent  years. -- Geoff Dyer\u003cbr\u003eA new book by Sarah Manguso is always a cause for celebration. She is a poet-philosopher of the highest order who combines a laser-sharp intellect with a lyric gift and a capacious, generous heart. She is one of my favorite writers, and with \u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e she deepens her inquiry into the very essence of what it is to be human. -- Dani Shapiro\u003cbr\u003eIt's sometimes less important to know what we need to know than how we need to know it.\u003ci\u003e 300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e is an uncommon commonplace book of the everyday - a glittering reference book for life -- Joanna Walsh, author of \u003ci\u003eBreak.Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading Sarah Manguso is destroying me from the inside out. -- Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments\u003c\/i\u003e] beckons the reader to return, to read a sentence, and put it down again. . . . Her arguments . . . are crystalline and often walloping. . . . There is ambition leaking out of every page * New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eThe need for comfort through language is implicit – and sometimes explicit – in Manguso’s work. A good aphorism will comfort: you might want to stick it on the fridge – or in your memory. Although she claims to have no fondness for beginnings and endings, her fear of formlessness is apparent. Perhaps she seized on the aphorism as a form of elegant punctuation, a new way to stop time with the (in every sense) arresting line. Both books are written in protest at the void and in fear of insignificance. * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e300 Arguments \u003c\/i\u003eis brilliant. One of my favourite books this year. -- Irenosen Okojie, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeak Gigantular\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Manguso is a miracle -- Kaveh Akbar, \u003ci\u003eCalling A Wolf A Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love Sarah Manguso. -- Lauren Groff\u003cbr\u003eHighly, highly recommended. Bracing, ferociously distilled. -- Laura Van den Berg\u003cbr\u003eSarah Manguso paints a mostly opaque, but at times penetratingly clear, self-portrait of a female writer at work. . . . The narrator's temper is mercurial; economical sentences range in tone from pithy and sardonic to tender and deeply empathetic. . . . But by the flip of a page, this wise and compassionate narrator descends into punchy one-liners that are darkly funny and sharper around the edges. * Hazlitt *\u003cbr\u003eHas your phone utterly destroyed your concentration span? This is the book for you. What at first seems like 300 unrelated aphorisms (“I notice a dangling modifier in a friend’s professional bio and don’t tell him. It is nothing less than sabotage”) grows into a universal world view, a profound philosophy and some very funny POVs with which to read aloud and torment your travelling companion. It may even inspire you to write your own. * Emerald Street *","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515804049751,"sku":"9781509883325","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/300-arguments-9781509883325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}