The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers--not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine--as they struggle to have it all. A brilliant feminist art historian ...
Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, the wife of a professor, the owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover a mistake from her past: not to have responded to a ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection "Shiksa Goddess" comes a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world.
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." ...
In this delicious book of essays, Wendy Wasserstein perfects the urbane, wacky and compassionate sensibility that informed plays like her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles.
The 35 essays here by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein initially appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Allure, and other periodicals. Wasserstein comically muses on her cat, fad diets, the Clintons, and Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow. She also shares poignant observations on motherhood and on her sister's battle with cancer.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "The Heidi Chronicles" comes this bestselling collection of 35 urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathetic essays covering the full range of her mid-life obsessions.
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in the West today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia. "You have the right to be lazy," writes Wasserstein. "You can choose not to respond. You can choose not to move." ...
A dinner party in an ornate mansion on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan provides the scene for this witty and incisive play. Set in two eras--the early 1900s and our own Gilded Age--the characters move effortlessly from one period to the other. The host, a contemporary master of high-risk arbitrage, steps in and out of character as a ...
It's Pamela's ninth birthday and her Aunt Louise is celebrating by taking her to a Broadway musical. The duo share lunch at a fancy New York City restaurant and then head to the theater. After the show, Pamela is taken backstage and is even allowed to stand on the lit empty stage and take a bow herself. Color illustrations accompany the text.
In 1989 "The Heidi Chronicles" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. It documents the progression from the 1960s to the 1980s, looking at the cynicism and longing of women and men who began with great expectations and ended up disappointed with their lives.
The lasting legacy of George Kelly, whose playwriting career spanned more than three decades, is largely to be found in the three plays, all from the 20s, included in this volume. Ranging from rollicking farce to gentle satire to bitter domestic drama, in their structure and their dialogue they all reveal Kelly as a master theatrical craftsman, an ...
The sisters Rosensweig are three extraordinary Brooklyn-born Jewish women. Sara is the managing director of the European branch of an international bank, and she lives ostensibly happy, man-free-life in London with her intelligent daughter, Tess. Pfeni is an eccentric travel writer who pursues an unsatisfactory relationship with Geoffrey, a ...
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