Ex Wife Faber Editions

<p><b>''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, <i>Really Good, Actually</i>).</b><br><br><b><i>''</i>I was floored: truly brilliant.'' (Meg Mason, <i>Sorrow and Bliss</i>)</b><br><br><i><b>It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four.</b></i><br><br>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 <i>he </i>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.<br><br>A sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, <i>Ex-Wife</i> 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.</p>