With them on the bill are an equally faded sell-out folkie supergroup once called the Main Street Singers ("a neuf-tet"), now augmented with dead members' children and new wives, and known as the New Main Street Singers.
Some men buy red sports cars; some acquire new wives with silicone breasts.
"That's why I relate to the new wives and fiancées," said Ms. Olson, 44.
But Mr Nawijn also studied ways to stop, notably, Moroccans bringing in new wives or husbands from their villages.
Both were young children when their mothers died, and both their fathers brought home new wives in short order.
Divorced fathers without custody (and with new wives) will often pull out all the stops, he said.
But the many divorced women are raising their children alone, wondering where their ex-husbands are spending the day with the new wives and kids.
When stepfamilies are ravaged by fights over how to discipline the children (fathers tend to be more lenient than their new wives), or between teenagers and their stepparents, those involved may be relieved to go their separate ways.
Young but hopelessly uncool, lustful without being sexy, dowdy, white, blind to its own staggering beauty, Ms. Munro's Vancouver is an outpost where new wives blink through the rain and wonder when their real lives are going to begin.
The action begins in 1932, with Henri Verdoux, a former bank clerk (and, like Hitler, a vegetarian) who lost his job because of the Depression, in the midst of a string of seductions, bigamous marriages, and murders of new wives, whose fortunes he plunders to support his child and disabled wife — and to sustain his own sybaritic aestheticism.
The new husbands brought up the old children and fathered new ones; the stepbrothers and stepsisters visited each other, and then the ex-husbands came back with their new wives and new children to spend the holidays together with the older ones".
