{"product_id":"bachelor-girls-isbn-9780679730620","title":"Bachelor Girls","description":"In plays such as \u003ci\u003eIsn't It Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUncommon Women and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Heidi Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBachelor Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Wasserstein presents her observations on:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Boyfriends:  \"The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Role Models:  \"In the forties emulating an ideal woman meant bobbing your hair like Betty Grable's. In the eighties, because of Jessica Lange, women have to get a Pulitzer Prize-winning actor-playwright to fall in love with them, have a child by one of the world's great dancers, be nominated for two Academy Awards, and enjoy doing the laundry alone on a farm.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Success: \"I knew my friend Patti was a big-time Hollywood agent the first time I saw her dial a telephone with a pencil.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging 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 \u003ci\u003eIsn't It Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBachelor Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is pure Wasserstein, which is to say, pure joy.Wendy Wasserstein is the author of the the plays \u003ci\u003eUncommon Women and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIsn’t It Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters Rosensweig\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn American Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Heidi Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and of the books, \u003ci\u003eBachelor Girls \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShiksa Goddess\u003c\/i\u003e.  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.  Her daughter, Lucy Jane, lives in New York.Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303993135333,"sku":"NP9780679730620","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679730620.jpg?v=1767722080","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/bachelor-girls-isbn-9780679730620","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}