"It’s 1925. Crunched between the Victorian age, WWI, and the Great Depression, women have new freedoms in the Roaring 20s, but do they? Patricia’s husband wants a divorce. She’s still in love with him, but the relationship has turned toxic. Separated from Peter, she’s free to explore her new identity as a businesswoman in her 20s, single again and living in New York City. According to her friend Lucia, women are “Free to pay our own rent, and buy our own clothes, and put up with the eccentricities of three to eight men who have authority over us in business, instead of having to please just one husband.” Can she survive being an Ex-Wife?
Published anonymously as part of a marketing gimmick, which drew attention to the scandalous writing, this sensational book sold over 100,000 copies in its first year. The novel explores difficult topics (divorce, abortion, rape, casual sex) via a rare lens - a 1920’s female perspective. Aside from the physical setting of telephones and rotogravures, the emotional tug-of-war for Patricia is just as easy to perceive today as it was almost a century ago."
"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."
"Sex and the City meets The Great Gatsby - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott
Patricia ist 24, als ihr Mann beschließt, die Ehe mit ihr zu beenden. Vor den Kopf gestoßen von dieser Entscheidung versucht sie zunächst, um ihren Mann zu kämpfen, merkt dann aber schnell, dass sie auch ohne ihn ein Leben führen und viel glücklicher sein kann. Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen und dem ekstatischen Leben in der flirrenden Metropole New York City in den goldenen 1920ern erlebt Patricia, was es bedeutet, als Frau mit den konventionellen Rollen zu brechen, zu trinken, zu flirten und das Leben ungeniert zu feiern. Doch auch der Gegenwind bleibt nicht aus: Was ist, wenn man die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt? Warum fällt ein Neuanfang umso schwerer, wenn man ständig allein für die Vergangenheit verurteilt wird?
'Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.' Mareike Fallwickl"
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