Ex-Wife (Faber Editions): 'I was floored: truly brilliant.' (Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss)

'Darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually)

''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, Really Good, Actually).

''I was floored: truly brilliant.'' (Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss)

It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four.

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.

• | Author: Ursula Parrott
• | Publisher: Faber & Faber
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780571388059
• | ISBN-10: 0571388051