{"product_id":"liars-and-saints","title":"Liars and Saints","description":"A richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. \"Each chapter...has the seductive aura of a finely crafted story. Liars and Saints is instructive and bittersweet and yet somehow never nostalgic\" (Los Angeles Times).Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present. In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together. By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love. \"Meloy may be the first great American realist of the twenty-first century: The Santerres aren't real but they feel like they are, and the reader will not soon forget them\" (The Boston Globe).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maile Meloy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.12h x 5.28w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743261982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2004 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2009 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeloy, Maile:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eHalf in Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eLiars and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and she has received \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN\/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53324187173162,"sku":"9780743261982","price":19.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_a5289a16-e709-4aba-8c41-744262595ce9.jpg?v=1793058802","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/liars-and-saints","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}