Ex-Wife
by Ursuala Parrott; Monica Heisey
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Pub Date Aug 01 2024 | Archive Date Not set
Faber and Faber Ltd | Faber Editions
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Description
'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' Monica Heisey
I did not hate him anymore, or love him, or feel anything about him at all. I felt tired.
New York, 1924. Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple. Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in 'Love-Outside-Marriage'. Until they don't. Or, really, until he doesn't. So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.
A sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, Ex-Wife plunges us into the 'era of the one-night stand'. It evokes not only the Manhattan bars, fashion advertising offices, female friendships and all-night parties of a dazzling city, but the hollow affairs, emotional hangovers, backstreet abortions, and struggles for sexual freedoms amidst the moral double standards of a patriarchal world.
With an introduction by Monica Heisey.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780571388059 |
| PRICE | £9.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 280 |
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Featured Reviews
Edith S, Book Trade Professional
Thank you Faber for the netgalley proof of "Ex-Wife" by Ursula Parrott , first published in the 1920ies, now rediscovered. I absolutely loved it, on my shelf of favorite novels of the year!
Spiked with great, smart one liners and wit, it reminded me a lot of the incomparable Dorothy Parker. Somewhat autobiographical Parrott describes her own life in 1920ties NY through Patricia, a new type of woman, recent divorcee in her twenties, with a broken heart and career of her own plus a neverending parade of men taking her and her girlfriends out every day. How on earth did they survive on so little sleep and so much booze ? I fell in love with the language of the novel and of course Pat and her girlfriends, whose chief goal was to stand by each other thru thick and thin and to be married again by age 30 , preferable to a wealthy man. A fabulous read, fresh and true even after 100 years, go out and buy it when it is published in August.
