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.
