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Divorcing Jack is the debut novel and first of the Dan Starkey series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, released on 28 January 1995 through HarperCollins. [1] The novel was recognised as one of the San Francisco Review of Books favourite "First books" of 1995–1996.
Divorce was seen as a remedy for the innocent against the guilty. So this had the weird consequence, castigated in the book, that if one spouse had committed adultery, they could be divorced, but if both had, they couldn't – unless the court chose to exercise its discretion. That discretion was itself covered by peculiar rules of its own.
Pages in category "Books about psychopathy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success; M. Mask of ...
For a psychopath, charm is simply a way of getting their foot in the door so they can achieve their real goals. "Psychopathic relationships can be characterized by grifting behavior, parasitic ...
We Need to Talk About Kevin is a 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, published by Serpent's Tail, about a fictional school massacre.It is written from the first person perspective of the teenage killer's mother, Eva Khatchadourian, and documents her attempt to come to terms with her psychopathic son Kevin and the murders he committed, as told in a series of letters from Eva to her husband [1].
‘You are right to divorce her. She lied to you for 20 years,’ one person says
[2] Entertainment writer Jeff Giles notes that the novel plays on reader expectations that the husband will be the murderer, expectations that have been shaped by the media: "The first half of Gone Girl is a nimble, caustic riff on our Nancy Grace culture and the way in which 'The butler did it' has morphed into 'The husband did it.'" [3] A New ...
The misogyny of the literary field during her lifetime caused Taubes suffering. [9] The literary critic Hugh Kenner, reviewing her book Divorcing in the New York Times on November 2, 1969, dismissed her as one of the "lady novelists" and “a quick-change artist with the clothes of other writers.” [10] Taubes drowned four days after Kenner's review was published, and a reappraisal of her ...