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Longlisted for the Wingate Prize
Financial Times Best Debuts
Guardian's Best Fiction of the Year

Once home to the country's most illustrious families, Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is now an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape, Ruthie learns how the town's prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history and how silence often masks a legacy of harm - from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends.

In Very Cold People Sarah Manguso reveals the suffocating constraints of growing up in a very old, and very cold, small town. Here lies a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smouldering rage . . .

‘I can’t think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso' - Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man

Very Cold People

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Longlisted for the Wingate PrizeFinancial Times Best DebutsGuardian's Best Fiction of the YearOnce home to the country's most illustrious families,... Read more

    Publisher: Pan Macmillan
    Publication Date: 28/04/2022
    ISBN13: 9781529055283, 978-1529055283
    ISBN10: 1529055288

    Number of Pages: 208

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    Longlisted for the Wingate Prize
    Financial Times Best Debuts
    Guardian's Best Fiction of the Year

    Once home to the country's most illustrious families, Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is now an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape, Ruthie learns how the town's prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history and how silence often masks a legacy of harm - from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends.

    In Very Cold People Sarah Manguso reveals the suffocating constraints of growing up in a very old, and very cold, small town. Here lies a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smouldering rage . . .

    ‘I can’t think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso' - Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man

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