false 1379695 3 Bestselling and award-winning author Suzanne Finnamore writes a story of divorce that is “brilliant” (Augusten Burroughs) and sure to become a classic. <BR><BR> There are certain books that come to epitomize their painful subject matter, offering solace to those who share the same fate and pleasure to those who merely appreciate fine writing. What <I>The Year of Magical Thinking</I> did for grief, what <I>Drinking: A Love Story</I> did for alcoholism, now Split does for divorce. Prescriptive yet full of pragmatic advice, insight and black humor, Split is a finely wrought tourniquet for a broken union and its attendant trauma. <BR><BR> Suzanne Finnamore, author of the novel Otherwise Engaged, didn’t see it coming. Well, perhaps she saw something—for example, a cocktail napkin on which her husband, N, had scribbled a Cole Porter love song and someone else’s name—but she refused to acknowledge it. She was busy tending to their one-year-old son, then applying makeup, donning high heels, and mixing a martini to greet N with when he arrived home at night. Until the night N came home, told her she looked beautiful, changed his clothes, and announced that he was leaving. <BR><BR> In crystalline, riveting prose, Finnamore tells the story of her divorce, and her marriage, and how it all imploded and came back together, changed. At once quite funny, achingly sad, and unflinchingly fierce, Split will resonate with anyone who’s endured the end of a relationship. 3222715 17 4 2008 Split: A Memoir of Divorce total:190|5:30|4:68|3:56|2:26|1:10| 190 652 372 72 2 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 08:52:51 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 09:01:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Mon May 12 07:32:57 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 18 13:33:10 -0800 2007 Mon May 12 07:32:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 09:00:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 09:05:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 06:05:25 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 07:40:32 -0800 2008
In an entirely candid portrayal of her struggle with divorce, Finnamore reveals a journey wholly undesirable. Relying on the support from relationship...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Sep 23 18:03:47 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 18:21:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 30 08:53:35 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 08:57:15 -0700 2008
The book, to put it simply, is about a woman who is going through a divorce. It begins simply, does not do much wo...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 09:30:11 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 08 22:01:00 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 07:32:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 07:15:46 -0700 2008 Just finished this one and I liked, definitely not loved it. Aside from the fact that I'm happily married, I couldn't relate to the author; she is well off, lives in a house she owns, is able to work from home as ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 21:33:08 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 19:36:38 -0700 2008
One thing that bugged me: she replaces the names of her ex-husband and her son with the initials N and A, respectively, which is a bit annoying in and o...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 20:14:22 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 19:07:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 22 20:13:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 19:31:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 04 20:02:27 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 05:03:02 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 10 10:57:49 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 05 11:24:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 13:24:42 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 20:42:06 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 14:32:23 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 14:37:15 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Apr 29 12:50:01 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 12:51:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 12:36:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 08:04:08 -0700 2008 Split I wanted to see what happened. Finnamore's story is probably not that uncommon, unfortunately. She thought she had a wonderful family un...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 09:32:03 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 11:00:14 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 20:57:58 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 21:02:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jun 30 22:52:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 22:57:21 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3413249