La divorciada
Parrott, Ursula
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La historia de un divorcio y sus secuelas que causó escándalo en la Era del Jazz.
Nueva York, 1924. Peter y Patricia son el perfecto ejemplo del matrimonio moderno. Ambos fuman, beben y trabajan. En cuanto al sexo con terceros, creen firmemente en la «política de la honestidad»… hasta que él deja de creer. De pronto, Patricia se ve obligada a labrarse una nueva vida como soltera. Un tipo de soltera muy particular: la divorciada. Redactora de anuncios de moda en unos grandes almacenes, Patricia tratará de conciliar las dos facetas de una mujer liberada: trabajadora diligente de día, joven hedonista y sofisticada de noche. Pero la frivolidad de la vida mundana, la nostalgia por un ideal irrecuperable del amor eterno y los romances fallidos con hombres poco disponibles le hacen sospechar que «la libertad para las mujeres resultó ser el mayor regalo que Dios les hizo a los hombres».
Escrita poco después del amargo divorcio de su autora, esta novela fue un auténtico succès de scandale y vendió más de cien mil ejemplares cuando se publicó anónimamente en 1929. Lejos de ser un canto desenfadado a la emancipación femenina, es un retrato irónico y feroz de los desafíos que conllevaba ser una mujer libre en una época en que, pese a los vientos de cambio, los hombres seguían teniendo mando en plaza.
Esta obra ha recibido una ayuda a la edición del Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Me noqueó. Me emocionó profundamente su habilidad para plasmar por escrito las sutilezas de la pérdida del amor a la vez que la pérdida de la juventud. Un libro extraordinario.» Vivian Gornick
«Una novela ambientada en el inframundo de Manhattan: alborotado, cargado de alcohol, promiscuo y repleto de romances.» Joyce Carol Oates
«Léelo si te gustan la malicia, ir de compras, desayunar a la hora de la cena, capear las adversidades con dignidad y las Crónicas de los Cazalet de Elizabeth Jane Howard.» New York Times
«Parrott debería situarse en los altares de la literatura lapidaria a la altura de Dorothy Parker o Nora Ephron.» Isabel Gómez Melenchón, La Vanguardia
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