ISBN-13: 9781946022561
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 Ageand still resonates today.Its 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 inthe honesty policy. Until they dont. Or, at least, until Peter doesntand 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 Yorkalongside 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 doctors offices where, despite rising hemlines, the men still call the shots. The result is a unique view of what its author Ursula Parrott calledthe era of the one-night stand an era very much like our own.
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ISBN-13: 9781946022561
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 Ageand still resonates today.Its 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 inthe honesty policy. Until they dont. Or, at least, until Peter doesntand 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 Yorkalongside 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 doctors offices where, despite rising hemlines, the men still call the shots. The result is a unique view of what its author Ursula Parrott calledthe era of the one-night stand an era very much like our own.
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