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Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.
2 maj 2023 · Ursula Parrott’s 1929 novel Ex-Wife was a scandalous, best-selling portrayal of the era’s “new woman,” but in her own life she remained trapped in conventional views of marriage and relationships.
2 maj 2023 · 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.
"Ex-Wife," a captivating novel set in the 1920s, tells the story of Patricia, a woman thrust into a journey of self-discovery after her husband unexpectedly decides to separate. The novel shines a light on a unique era where divorce was a social scandal, particularly for middle-class white women like Patricia.
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 ...
A progressive precursor to Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avocado and Norah Ephron’s Heartburn, Ex-Wife presents a bleakly unsentimental vision of the cruel illogic of life and love. It exposes ...
2 maj 2023 · 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...
