{"product_id":"all-men-are-liars-isbn-9781594488351","title":"All Men Are Liars","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Lying.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own subjective version of the truth? As the literary investigation unfolds and a chorus of Bevilacqua’s peers piece together the fractured reality of his life, thirty years after his death, only the reader holds the power of final judgment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll Men Are Liars\u003c\/i\u003e, Alberto Manguel pays homage to literature’s inventions and explores whether we can ever truly know someone, and the question of how, by whom, and for what, we ourselves will be remembered.“[\u003ci\u003eAll Men Are Liars \u003c\/i\u003eis a] beguiling exercise in metafiction, one that tells an engrossing story from various perspectives while undermining the possibility of truth in storytelling… This novel succeeds both as a story and an illumination of storytelling.” – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, STARRED REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] richly hued, melancholy and funny puzzle of a novel…” — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable novel richly textured, ingeniously constructed and deeply unsettling” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Clever, witty and entertaining.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Buenos   Aires, Alberto Manguel is the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Imaginary Places\u003c\/i\u003e (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi), \u003ci\u003eA History of Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Library at Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNews From a Foreign Country Came\u003c\/i\u003e and the translator and editor of many other works. He lives in the south of France.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300394160357,"sku":"NP9781594488351","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594488351.jpg?v=1767721272","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/all-men-are-liars-isbn-9781594488351","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}