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Wasserstein, Wendy
An American Daughter
New York Harcourt, Brace and Company 1998 0151003327 / 9780151003327 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine Collectible SIGNED
xiii, 105 pp., illus.; 22 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Authorial signature & dedication/front free endpaper. One corner bumped. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama." - Publisher.
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Wasserstein, Wendy
An American Daughter
New York Harvest Books 1999 0156006456 / 9780156006453 First edition thus Trade Paperback Fine
xiii, 105 pp., illus.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Lyssa Dent Hughes is the privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator. She is the wife of a professor and the owner of a lovely house in Georgetown. She is also the president's nominee for Surgeon General. When the media discovers that once, long ago, she failed to respond for jury duty, this relatively minor misstep is portrayed as a serious moral lapse. A good friend uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the implications, and Lyssa must suffer the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly as the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world. Wendy Wasserstein's trenchant humor and sizzling dialogue combine with biting political commentary to produce a masterful, and topical, drama." - Publisher.
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Wasserstein, Wendy
Bachelor Girls
New York Vintage Books: Random House 1991 0679730621 / 9780679730620 6th printing Trade Paperback Very Good
xii, 209 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "In plays such as Isn't It Romantic, Uncommon Women and Others, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein put her finger on the pulse of her past-modern, post-feminist sisters and delivered her diagnosis with shrewd good humor and an unerring sense of the absurd. That same engaging sensibility bubbles through the twenty-nine essays in Bachelor Girls ... Ranging from the dietary secrets of lemon mousse to the politics of the second marriage, with stopovers at a bar mitzvah in Westchester, a chess tournament in Rumania, and a Tokyo production of Isn't It Romantic, Bachelor Girls is pure Wasserstein, which is to say, pure joy. / Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays Uncommon Women and Others, Isn’t It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She was admired both for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh and leaves us wiser. Wendy Wasserstein was born in 1950 in Brooklyn and died at the age of 55." - Publisher.
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Wasserstein, Wendy
Elements of Style: A Novel
New York Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book 2006 1400042313 / 9781400042319 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
Cloth, gilt, 307 pp.; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess ('Utterly delicious' - Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world - the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be. We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she's originally from Queens with a father in hosiery; life on the fringes of glittering New York is fine with her)...Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of the Van Rensselaers and the Carnegies, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley...Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a cop - her life's work, her obsession, is New York society and its richest families...Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani...and many more. As Elements of Style opens out, we see a madcap mosaic of the social lives and mores of twenty-first century Manhattan - of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching - and deliciously Wasserstein. / Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays Uncommon Women and Others, Isn’t It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She was admired both for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh and leaves us wiser. Wendy Wasserstein was born in 1950 in Brooklyn and died at the age of 55." - Publisher.
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Wasserstein, Wendy
Elements of Style: A Novel
New York Vintage Books; Random House 2007 1400076870 / 9781400076871 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Very Good
307 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess ('Utterly delicious' - Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York's urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world - the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the desperate to be. We meet Francesca Weissman, the Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Manhattan magazine, who takes us into the upper strata of privilege and aspiration (she's originally from Queens with a father in hosiery; life on the fringes of glittering New York is fine with her)...Samantha Acton, thoroughbred descendant of the Van Rensselaers and the Carnegies, who defines the social order in the great tradition of Mrs. Astor and Babe Paley...Judy Tremont from Modesto, California, daughter of a cop - her life's work, her obsession, is New York society and its richest families...Barry Santorini, Republican, moviemaker, winner of twelve Oscars, and his wife, the Italian supermarket heiress and former media rep for Giorgio Armani...and many more. As Elements of Style opens out, we see a madcap mosaic of the social lives and mores of twenty-first century Manhattan - of romance, work, family, and friendship. Satiric, fierce, touching - and deliciously Wasserstein. / Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays Uncommon Women and Others, Isn’t It Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, Bachelor Girls and Shiksa Goddess. She was admired both for the warmth and the satirical cool of her writing; each of her plays and books captures an essence of the time, makes us laugh and leaves us wiser. Wendy Wasserstein was born in 1950 in Brooklyn and died at the age of 55." - Publisher.
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Wasserstein, Wendy
Shiksa Goddess (or, How I Spent My Forties): Essays
New York Vintage Books; Random House 2002 0375726039 / 9780375726033 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Very Good
xii, 235 pp.; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "When Wendy Wasserstein turned forty, she made a To Do list composed mostly of items left over from when she turned thrity. The listincluded the annuals: lose weight, exercise, read more, improve female friendships, improve male friendships, and (left over from her second grade To Do list) become a better citizen. At the end of the list were the larger-than-life unavoidables: move, fall in love, and decide about a baby. In Shiksa Goddess, her first book of essays in ten years, Wendy writes about each f the quests and midlife obsessions. On diets and cooking ('I was born to order up...My favorite breakfast china has always been a paper cup embossed with a picture of the Parthenon.')...On getting in shape and hiring a personal trainer (Sue is on hand twenty-four hours to say, Stop! In the name of self-love...She is a fat-free beacon of light)...About the rise of the legendary Mrs. Entenmann, who married the boss at nineteen and went from salesgirl to bakery czarina...On the truth of her denominational heritage (the name Wasserstein was changed from Waterson by a distant relative in order to get his child into an Ivy Leage college and Mount Sinai Medical School)...On buying an apartment--and then seeking refuge from it for a year in a residential hotel ('Life boiled back down to basics: work, friendship, and room service')...About attending the Golden Globe Awards...On the traditions of the holidays ('I was very disappointed the first time I saw Plymouth Rock...I thought it would be surrounded by Barricini chocolate turkeys, dancing sweet potatoes, and Pilgrims in crepe-paper hats')...On Mother's Day and her mother, Lola Wasserstein ('Lola encourages sending a homemade greeting card. A personal citation like "I love you, Gramma" or "Mother, I promise next year to be married with three musically inclined children, a co-op, and a degree in dentistry" is worth thousands of words')...on Chekhov...George Abbott...And she writes movingly about her sister's battle with breast cancer, and about her own pregnancy at forty-eight and the birth of her first child, Lucy Jane. / Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She is the author of such plays as Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't it Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Wasserstein has also been the recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Wendy Wasserstein [lived] in New York City with her daugher, Lucy Jane." - Publisher.
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