| Edition |
First McNally Editions paperback. |
| Description |
xii, 218 pages : music ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
McNally Editions ; no. 17 |
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McNally Editions (Series) ; no. 17.
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| Note |
First published: 1929. |
| Summary |
"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 girltalk, and the freedoms and anguish of solitude. It also casts a cool eye on the bedrooms and the doctors' 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." - from publisher website |
| Subject |
Divorced women -- Fiction.
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Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Divorce -- Fiction.
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Nineteen twenties -- Fiction.
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Adultery (OCoLC)fst00797378
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Divorce (OCoLC)fst00895809
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Divorced women (OCoLC)fst00895945
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Nineteen twenties (OCoLC)fst01037835
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Self-realization in women (OCoLC)fst01111914
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Bennett, Alissa, writer of foreword.
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Parrott, Marc, writer of afterword.
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| ISBN |
194602256X (paperback) |
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9781946022561 (paperback) |
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