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Fiction Briefs
September 18, 1929 issue

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This article literary appraises the book "Ex-Wife." This thin volume purports to be the true story of--a woman who was discarded by her husband, and who sought forgetfulness in promiscuity. Her rather lurid career terminated in a sincere passion for a married man. When he left her, she died emotionally, and her final remarriage was merely a passive half-humorous acknowledgment of loneliness. It is evident that the dramatic sequence is exaggerated and that even the more prosaic details of her flight from memory are theatricalized. Nevertheless, the narrative seems to be authentic; it has a certain intangible quality of truth. Whether it is true or not, however, the book is an interesting portrait of a particular type of post-war woman.

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EX-Wife (Book); HUSBANDS; PROMISCUITY; REMARRIAGE; HUMOROUS stories; BOOKS & reading
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