1. New genre: split-up lit: novels/stories growing out of divorce/separation. Waugh's Handful of Dust, Roth's My Life As a Man....
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2. Alice Munro's Who Do You Think You Are, Updike's Marry Me, Roth's I Married A Communist. Just off the top of my head.
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3. Danger of Split-Up lit is that can be self-serving, vindictive, blinkered. Certainly true of Roth.
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4. Objectively speaking, Handful of Dust is a pretty self-serving account of Waugh's divorce (wife is completely self-centered, vapid)
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5. Still Handful is a funny, expertly structured book, with a devastating satirical bite.
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6. Motives behind satire can be petty, but results still have a wider human resonance. True of Pope & Swift as well as Waugh.
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7. Aside from Ephron's Heartburns & middle period Alice Munro, more examples of split-up lit by women? Some early Atwood counts.
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