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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 bisexual theatre director. And Gorgeous has the perfect husband and family in Massachusetts, where she pursues a "funsy" career as a radio agony aunt. When they meet up at Sara'a house in Holland Park to celebrate her 54th birthday, reawakened familial bonds cause each women to confront her past and her future. This self-exploration is sometimes painful, but the reunion is made very interesting by the arrival of the New Yorker, Merv, a furrier who takes a shine to Sara. Falling in love at 54 is not impossible, but who said it was meant to be easy?
Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that
skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in
America today.
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.
Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker. Divorced, a single mother, Sara no longer sees the necessity for romance. Gorgeous, suburban housewife and mother, is also a talk-show personality. And Pfeni, journalist and travel writer, still hasn't written her serious book on the women of Tajikistan. Pfeni's boyfriend, Geoffrey, director of the hit musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, brings to Sara's house Mervyn, a faux furrier, "the world leader in synthetic animal protective covering". Sara meets Merv and finds that even at fifty-four there are possibilities. An exuberant, heart-warming, contemporary comedy by one of America's best playwrights.
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.
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.
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