The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Sarah Manguso's prose elegy for a friend who died when he jumped onto the tracks as a Metro-North train pulled into the 254th Street station in Riverdale is odd, fragmentary, obstinately unbalanced, with a flatness of affect that speaks to the inadequacy of words. Manguso's embrace of rhetorical failure itself constitutes an unusual and strangely affecting lament. —Jenny Davidson--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.