| The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic Contributor(s): Wasserstein, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679734996 ISBN-13: 9780679734994 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1991 Annotation: 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 trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties. Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so "real" that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays--"Uncommon Women and Others," "Isn't It Romantic," and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Heidi" "Chronicles"--manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Drama | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 90055681 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.18" W x 8.08" (0.45 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 trying to keep her bearings and her sense of humor on the elevator ride from the radical sixties to the heartless eighties. Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so funny, so many-sided, and so real that we seem to know them from their Scene One entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays--Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles--manage to engage us heart, mind, and soul on such a deep and lasting level that they are already recognized as classics of the modern theater. |