Ex-Wife (Faber Editions) - A stop you in your tracks classic Monica Heisey, author of Really

''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 ). Lord, I have been more chased than chaste . . 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ursula Parrott
• Con la collaborazione di: Monica Heisey (Introduzione), Heisey Monica (Introduzione)
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9780571388059
• ISBN: 978-0-571-38805-9
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Faber Editions
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / General, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary