# Ongoingness

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- Book: [Ongoingness](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-manguso/ongoingness) ([Ongoingness.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-manguso/ongoingness.md))
- Authors: [Sarah Manguso](https://www.bookquiver.com/sarah-manguso)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-15-0988-329-5
- Pages: 96
- Published: 2018-08-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time--about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so formally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.