Watch the Trailer for the EX-WIFE Audiobook
Fans of Ursula Parrott’s 1929 gem, Ex-Wife, can now listen to this racy and affecting story of a divorce and its aftermath, narrated by introducer Alissa Bennett. Here’s a fun video preview for you, and you can download the audiobook from Tantor Media, Audible, and wherever fine audiobooks are sold.
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None-Too-Gay Divorcées: Joyce Carol Oates Reviews 'Ex-Wife'
Ursula Parrott’s 1929 novel Ex-Wife was a scandalous, best-selling portrayal of the era’s “new woman,” but in her own life she remained trapped in conventional views of marriage and relationships.
Summer Reading Picks from McNally Editions
We’ve got recommendations galore for your reading list. First, hot off the press, is ‘The Feast,’ Margaret Kennedy’s ingenious upstairs-downstairs comedy which reads like ‘White Lotus’ time-machined to 1940s Cornwall.
The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New York
Ursula Parrott’s “Ex-Wife” caused a sensation when it was published in 1929. But it wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of sexual liberation readers were primed to expect.
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