Name: Gabe Cortez's review of Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Item: Ex-Wife
Rating: 5
Author: Gabe Cortez

Ursula Parrott

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.

Ex-Wife

Quietly moving, literally heart wrenching. Longing and pain captured so well and presented in a little capsule you can take to numb the sensation of it all. Incredible book. Funny as well. Hard to believe it’s 100 years old. 

Gabe Cortez

You're telling me they made every 10th grader in America read the Great Gatsby when this existed????? The Great Gatsby has a lot going for it but does it have HILDA JARVIS??? Does is have an OLD TIMEY ABORTION??? Does it have a woman paying for CUSTOM ARTISTIC MASKS FOR HER LOVERS WIFE???? no, no it does not. 

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