{"product_id":"ex-wife-book-ursula-parrott-9781946022561","title":"Ex-Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Precociously aphoristic and coolly unsentimental . . . Like Fitzgerald but from a woman's perspective . . . As if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era.\" --Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, \u003ci\u003eEx-Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age--and still resonates today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, \u003ci\u003eEx-Wife\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49959782875409,"sku":"CIN194602256XG","price":13.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50471101792529,"sku":"GOR013620934","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057548624145,"sku":"NIN9781946022561","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107786387729,"sku":"CIN194602256XVG","price":13.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/194602256X.jpg?v=1761645753","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ex-wife-book-ursula-parrott-9781946022561","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}