The 1930 follow-up to the scandalous bestseller Ex-Wife, Ursula Parrott’s Strangers May Kiss is a moving melodrama of a young woman who arrives in Jazz Age New York, seeking adventure and determined to avoid marriage, and enters into a long-term affair with a brilliant newspaper reporter.
‘Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective, Parrott examined the fraying social fabric in the aftermath of World War I, the final vestiges of a Victorian era in which the place of a woman was defined almost exclusively in reference to men: fathers, husbands, ex-husbands, lovers. In the pre-war world to be a woman was to inhabit a role; the essence of the role was duty. But in the 1920s to be a woman was to find oneself with no specific role and to confront a radically altered landscape in which the confining security of the past could no longer be taken for granted.’ –Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
Genre: Literary Fiction
‘Like Fitzgerald but from a woman’s perspective, Parrott examined the fraying social fabric in the aftermath of World War I, the final vestiges of a Victorian era in which the place of a woman was defined almost exclusively in reference to men: fathers, husbands, ex-husbands, lovers. In the pre-war world to be a woman was to inhabit a role; the essence of the role was duty. But in the 1920s to be a woman was to find oneself with no specific role and to confront a radically altered landscape in which the confining security of the past could no longer be taken for granted.’ –Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books
Genre: Literary Fiction
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