Ex-Wife d'Ursula Parrott

Ce roman américain sort chez McNally editions le 23 mai prochain. Je ne le connais pas mais il m'intrigue beaucoup.

Citation :

Ursula Parrott, était une autrice américaine de romans de fiction romantique à succès commercial. Son premier livre, Ex-Wife, a été un best-seller et a été adapté au cinéma sous le nom de The Divorcee, avec Norma Shearer.

Citation :

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.

Clairement, le résumé donne envie.

Le nom du film me dit quelque chose, même si je ne pense pas l'avoir vu.

Le catalogue des éditions McNally regorge de titres très intrigants. Je vais finir par me laisser tenter un de ces jours.

Et on ne parle même pas de la couverture

Le New Yorker vient de consacrer un long article à la réédition de ce roman :

The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age New York | The New Yorker

J'adore l'illustration