Ex-Wife (Faber Editions)

DESCRIPTION :

'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.

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9780571388059
BY (AUTHOR) Parrott, Ursula, INTRODUCTION BY Heisey, Monica
PUBLISHER : Faber & Faber	PUBLICATION DATE : August 01, 2024
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom	IMPRINT : Faber & Faber
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 198 mm x 129 mm
SERIES : Faber Editions

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