A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing

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Divorce Broken relationships Relationships Marriage

Author

Margaret Atwood

Source

Surfacing

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Canada

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Citation

Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 5.

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