Very cold people : a novel
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New York : Hogarth, 2022.
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First edition.
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191 pages : 22 cm.
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Lamar Public Library (C426) - FICTION | fic MANGUS SARAH | On Shelf | ||
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Published
New York : Hogarth, 2022.
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Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Growing up in the frozen, snow-padded town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, Ruthie, dealing with shame handed down from her immigrant ancestors and her indomitable mother, and violence endured by her high school friends, wonders if she’ll ever get out of this town alive.
Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.
Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.
As she grows older, Ruthie slowly 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, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.
In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Manguso, S. (2022). Very cold people: a novel (First edition.). Hogarth.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Manguso, Sarah, 1974-. 2022. Very Cold People: A Novel. Hogarth.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Manguso, Sarah, 1974-. Very Cold People: A Novel Hogarth, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Manguso, Sarah. Very Cold People: A Novel First edition., Hogarth, 2022.
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