![]() ![]() On the other hand, most of the characters in Heartburn are entirely fictional, and many of the things that happen in the book didn't happen at all. The unbelievably tall person he had the affair with remained unbelievably tall it's my experience as a novelist that some things lose everything if they are disguised, even thinly, and that therefore it's best to just leave them alone. In the book, I thinly disguised myself by making myself considerably more composed than I was at the time, and I thinly disguised my ex-husband by giving him a beard that belonged to one of my friends. ![]() My second marriage in fact ended exactly the way the one in Heartburn does, shortly after I discovered that my husband was having an affair with an unbelievably tall person. ![]() ![]() Let's face it, Philip Roth and John Updike picked away at the carcasses of their early marriages in book after book, but to the best of my knowledge they were never hit with the "thinly disguised" thing.īut as I was saying, I have no real quarrel with this description. I have no real quarrel with this description, even though I've noticed, over the years, that the words "thinly disguised" are applied mostly to books written by women. It's been nearly 25 years since my second marriage ended, and 22 since I finished writing Heartburn, which is often referred to as a thinly disguised novel. ![]()
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