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Very Cold People
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
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 . . .
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"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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- Agata
- 14-01-23
good book
An investigation into small town living. Enclosed communities and family dynamics that not necessarily create positive relationships with self and others. the effects of trauma. wanting to belong but living with a feeling you can't fit it. Even the life in Waitsfield seem bleak, each story is told in an engaging way and unfolds the effect of living there every chapter at the time.
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- E. A. Watson
- 25-12-22
A restrained story of a society steeped in abuse
I’m glad this book exists and that it addresses difficult stuff but avoids any bum notes. I wish authentic, meaningful writing on these areas of life didn’t have to feel so guarded, so exhausted and radiate such willed stability; but that seems to be where we are as a culture. It is well done and often poetic but its vigilance is painful.
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- Bookbuyer
- 14-02-24
Kinda bland
Not sure I fully understood this one. Felt rather bland to me. And I actually gave up which is rare.
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