{"product_id":"ex-wife-ursula-parrott-paperback","title":"Ex-Wife -- Ursula Parrott, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental . . . Like Fitzgerald but from a woman's perspective . . . As if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era.\" --Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, \u003ci\u003eEx-Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age--and still resonates today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, \u003ci\u003eEx-Wife\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ursula Parrott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\/2\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.4\" H x 5\" L x 0.7\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781946022561\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51827199836459,"sku":"9781946022561","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781946022561_192e40ce-e16b-465c-b236-b3f9d0a8c4e1.jpg?v=1782902371","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/ex-wife-ursula-parrott-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}