Shiksa Goddess - (Or, How I Spent My Forties) Essays (Paperback, 1st Vintage Books ed)

Celebrated playwright and magnetic wit Wendy Wasserstein has been firmly rooted in New York’s cultural life since her childhood of Broadway matinees, but her appeal is universal. Shiksa Goddess collects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essays–all written when she was in her forties, and all infused with her trademark irreverent humor.

The full range of Wasserstein’s mid-life obsessions are covered in this eclectic collection: everything from Chekhov, politics, and celebrity, to family, fashion, and real estate. Whether fretting over her figure, discovering her gentile roots, proclaiming her love for ordered-in breakfasts, lobbying for affordable theater, or writing tenderly about her very Jewish mother and her own daughter, born when she was forty-eight and single, Wasserstein reveals the full, dizzying life of a shiksa goddess with unabashed candor and inimitable style.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2002
First published:	May 2002
Authors:	Wendy Wasserstein
Dimensions:	202 x 133 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-72603-3
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Promotions
LSN:	0-375-72603-9
Barcode:	9780375726033

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