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    I'm currently reading The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, it's a short novel from the perspective of a woman whose husband very suddenly announces that he doesn't love her any more, and leaves her for a younger woman. It's pretty gripping, though I'm now remembering why I didn't like Ferrante's style when I read the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend and its sequels).

    Now I'm curious to find a novel that covers similar ground, but from the male perspective. That is, a man is left by his wife (or partner) and we see how he deals with it. I have done some googling and I'm finding very little – it seems like all the divorce novels come from the female perspective.

    Fiction of the more literary type is my preference, if such a thing exists. Thanks in advance!

    by andrew3young

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    1. KindCartographer2800 on

      Yeah unfortunately the only other one that crosses my mind is the Wedding People, but thats also from a women’s perspective

    2. The Dog of the South by Charles Portis. 

      A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. 

      Both funny, the latter significantly darker than the former. 

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