Parrott Ursula - Ex - Wife - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex - Wife is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age and still resonates today. It's 1924, and Peter and Patricia have what looks to be a very modern marriage. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work Patricia as a head copywriter at a major department store. When it comes to sex with other people both believe in the honesty policy. Until they don t. Or at least until Peter doesn t and a shell - shocked lovesick Patricia finds herself starting out all over again but this time around as a different kind of single woman: the ex - wife. An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex - Wife captures the speakeasies night clubs and parties that defined Jazz Age New York alongside the morning - after aspirin and calisthenics the lunch - hour visits to the gym the girl - talk and the freedoms and anguish of solitude. It also casts a cool eye on the bedrooms and the doctor's offices where despite rising hemlines the men still call the shots. The result is a unique view of what its author Ursula Parrott called the era of the one - night stand : an era very much like our own.
Title: Ex - Wife
Author(s): Parrott Ursula
Publisher: Mcnally Jackson Books
Barcode: 9781946022561
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 5/2/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction