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Splitting (Weldon, Fay)by Weldon, Fay
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Book DescriptionAtlantic Monthly Press. Trade PaperBack. 0871136368 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. 1996 Atlantic Monthly Press Trade PaperBack . Very Good. 1996. Book summaryAngelica Rice undergoes a divorce and then an even more substantial split: she develops multiple personalities. A comedy of manners, "Splitting" tells the tale of one woman who seems to embody a multitude of quirky English characters--proper to downright saucy.Media Reviews"Her latest novel, Splitting....turns jealousy and misery into fissionable material. When the protagonist, Angelica Rice, flies to pieces after her aristocrat cad of a husband leaves her financially dry, those pieces assume identities of their own. Her heroine becomes a multiple personality....the way she pops surrealism into the story like a cinematic device make her more attuned to the American metabolism than, say, the quiet pursuits of Anita Brookner or Joanna Trollope are." -- James Wolcott "Smirky and post-modern....quirky, deliberately silly novel of modern manners and foibles." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Weldon again proves herself one of a kind, a smart satirist whose playful exploration of psychology reveals society's fault lines and fractures." -- Publishers Weekly First LineMulheisen was sitting in Pinky's restaurant, staring at a remarkable picture of a naked woman. Pinky's was one of his favorite places in Detroit. Publisher NotesA sharp and funny portrait of divorce, SPLITTING captures brilliantly the chaotic rhythms of a woman in crisis as it chronicles Angelica's disintegration into a handful of "perforated" personalities. No one writes with shrewder insight about women and that ambiguous and overriding presence in their lives men than Fay Weldon. This is journey rich with her wit, wisdom, and very original narrative power. Now in paperback, this wickedly incisive portrait of divorce swoops with dizzying ease among the conflicting perspectives of a woman whose personality, in the face of her impanding divorce, has slivered into a chorus of bickering interior voices. "Weldon in top form".--Kirkus Reviews. Other Recommended Books
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