About this title: 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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 04/2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 307 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 04/2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 307 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 04/2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 307 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 04/2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 307 p. read more
Description: New. 1400076870 Brand New. Cover has NO wear. NO spine seams. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean with NO markings, NO creases and NO dog-ears. Trade Paperback. read more
Description: Very Good. 1400042313 Library copy with mylar cover and library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! read more
Description: Very Good. 1400076870 Very Good Condition, No Markings, highlighting or notes, ** Satisfaction Guaranteed ** Orders ship same or next business day. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400076871ISBN:1400076870
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Fiction Contemporary Synopsis: 323 pages. Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high societ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042319ISBN:1400042313
Description: Good in Good jacket. 202-X-Add. Ex-library. Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"Such a disappointment as I love Wasserstein's work. Perhaps she simply didn't live long enough to hold onto this one and work it through. There are moments throughout where her wit, warmth and intelligence shines, but the last quarter of the book was awful enough that I tossed the book across the room -- literally. Dearly wish she had lived long enough to continue to write and to work on what would have been a fine novel -- I know she had it in her -- but this aint it."
"i was hoping that this would be good beach, "summer" reading, and while i love wasserstein, i hated this book.
i didn't find any of it funny. i found it pathetic and disgusting. it droned on, and on, and on. it was predictable. the characters i think i was supposed to sympathize with and like, were boring and uninteresting. it was way too voyeuristic, but not in a good or exciting way, just in an icky way. i enjoyed the devil wears prada more - i hated and simultanouisly loved those characters (despite the book being poorly witten).
and i kept wondering if ms. wasserstein actually spent time in these circles, or made it all up. if she did spend time in these circles, i feel really bad for her wasted time.
"Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy! Not really a literary challenge. It was suggested to me that Wasserstein is a good choice for competitive prose pieces, so I read this one. It was a fun read, but not really one that my students could use in competition. Guess I will have to try some others."
"This was a quick read... it reminds me of a TV series like Sex and the City. I loved Wendy's plays and since this book was published after she died, I wanted to read it. I liked "Frankie" a lot.. and figured she might have been fashioned after Wendy herself."
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