Ex-Wife by Parrott, Ursula
Ex-Wife by Parrott, Ursula

Ex-Wife

An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife is the story of a divorce...
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SKU: 9781946022561
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Author: Ursula Parrott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ex-Wife by Parrott, Ursula

Ex-Wife

$27.35
Ex-Wife by Parrott, Ursula

Ex-Wife

$27.35
Author: Ursula Parrott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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 Age--and still resonates today.

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.



Author: Ursula Parrott
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.04w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781946022561

About the Author
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.

Alissa Bennett is an essayist whose work addresses fandom, celebrity, and popular culture.

Marc Parrott (1923-1988) was the only son of Lindesay Marc Parrott and Ursula Parrott.
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