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Announcing the McNally Editions Book Club
Held monthly at McNally Jackson Downtown Brooklyn and hosted by Ama Kwarteng, the McNally Editions Book Club is organized around books that have been largely forgotten, the reissued classics and rare finds that have slipped from the mainstream and are waiting to be discovered by a new set of readers. This month we’ll discuss Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife, first published anonymously in 1929, a story of a divorce and its aftermath that scandalized the Jazz Age.
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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.
Meet the Archive Moles
“There’s a growing band of people digging through library stacks and second-hand bookshops in search of lost classics. I’m one of them.“