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    Ex-Wife

    By Ursula Parrott, Bennett and Parrott

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    An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929—the story of a divorce and its aftermath, which scandalized the Jazz Age.

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcNally Editions
    Release dateMay 2, 2023
    ISBN9781946022578
    Author

    Ursula Parrott

    Ursula Parrott (1899-1957) was born Katherine Ursula Towle in Dorchester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Radcliffe College, she became a newspaper reporter in New York and married her fellow journalist Lindesay Marc Parrott. The experience of their divorce helped inspire her first novel, Ex-Wife, which was published anonymously in 1929 and sold 100,000 copies in its first year. Parrott became one of the most successful female writers of the 1930s, adapting several of her bestsellers for the screen, including Strangers May Kiss and Next Time We Live. Her tumultuous private life included three more marriages, rumored liaisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and the jazz guitarist Michael Neely Bryan. She died of cancer on a charity ward in New York, having spent the small fortune she earned with her pen.

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    • 4/5
      Extra-marital sex. Abortion. Substance abuse. Skepticism about the sexual revolution, and how it sure seems to just screw over women.

      Is it the 1960s? The 1970s? No - it's 1925.

      Definitely a fascinating look at sex and the (newly) single girl and the city back in your grandmother's day. It starts with our protagonist's husband's exit, and has a very nice twist of an ending, but the middle was too long and made me very impatient with Patricia's endless, mindless promiscuity. And I wish the heroine could have been given a bit more going for her besides her looks - that got very tiring to read about too. I was super sick of hearing about her "creamy" shoulders, and super sick of every man she met gushing over her beauty.

      Good lines:

      "New York's a jail to which, once committed, the sentence is for life; but it is such a well-furnished jail, one does not mind much."

      "Great Lovers - men who've known a hundred women, and boast of it - they remind me of the man who wanted to be a musician and so took one lesson on each instrument in the orchestra... He couldn't play a tune on any of them in the end."
    • 4/5
      Written in the 1920s, Ex-Wife is the first-person story of a young woman who sounds like a modern woman dealing with divorce, abortion, infidelity, one-night stands, and heartbreak. However, she does hold quite a few of the manners and habits associated with her era. Fascinating. This could be quite an eye-opener for those who think American women weren't sexually liberated until the Sixties.

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