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300 Arguments: Essays

By: Sarah Manguso
Narrated by: Sarah Manguso
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A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists.

There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.

Bad art is from no one to no one.

Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I'll tell you whether you are.

Thank heaven I don't have my friends' problems. But sometimes I notice an expression on one of their faces that I recognize as secret gratitude.

I read sad stories to inoculate myself against grief. I watch action movies to identify with the quick-witted heroes. Both the same fantasy: I'll escape the worst of it.

- from 300 Arguments

A "Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis" (Kirkus Reviews), Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary artists at work today. To hear her work is to witness acrobatic acts of compression in the service of extraordinary psychological and spiritual insight.

300 Arguments, a foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing, is at first glance a group of unrelated aphorisms. But, as in the work of David Markson, the pieces reveal themselves as a masterful arrangement that steadily gathers power. Manguso's arguments about desire, ambition, relationships, and failure are pithy, unsentimental, and defiant, and they add up to an unexpected and renegade wisdom literature.

©2017 Graywolf Press (P)2017 TalkingBook

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Cool Collection Of Essays, Nice Reading

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Really enjoyed these. Pretty different. Probably listen to more essays now. Great for busy mind, hungry for info.

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Hooray!

These are so good. Manguso's work is top notch. Loved the audio too. Great self narrated books are hard to come by.

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I GIVE THIS 300 STARS!

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I'd love it if there were more books like this to listen to. Every single essay is awesome and thoughtful.

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YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS

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We need more essay collections in audio. Made me reconsider a lot. Thank you, Sarah Manguso.

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SARAH MANGUSO IS GREAT

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I loved this. So informative and cool. Like a smack in the head. I wish everyone heard this. RECOMMEND!

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AWESOME ESSAYS!

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I'd never heard of Sarah Manguso, but man-oh-man, these are awesome. RECOMMEND TO ALL!

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Sarah Manguso Will Save Us

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Love this author's work. Listened to them on the way to work and I feel better about existence now. Awesome essays.

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Clever and absorbing.

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Listened in one sitting and absolutely loved it. Intense and concise. I absolutely loved Sarah Manguso's delivery.

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Super cool essays and great quality

Great audiobook. Killer essays. More from Sarah Manguso! I don't know why there aren't more audiobooks like this.

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Very entertaining!

It was great listening to this book, I hope there will be another! I will read again soon.

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