{"product_id":"the-heidi-chronicles-isbn-9780679734994","title":"The Heidi Chronicles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Wasserstein's characters are so  funny, so many-sided, and so \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e that we seem to know them from their Scene One  entrances, though the places they go are invariably surprising. And these three plays—\u003ci\u003eUncommon  Women and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIsn't It Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Heidi\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Heidi Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e is a play of our time, for our time, and one that, in many ways, defines it.\" \u003cbr\u003e—United Press International \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mirthful and touching.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful and important...gloriously well-written.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy 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.\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304774750437,"sku":"NP9780679734994","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679734994.jpg?v=1767739756","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-heidi-chronicles-isbn-9780679734994","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}