Shiksa Goddess (Or, How I Spent My Forties) Essays
, by WASSERSTEIN, WENDYNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780375726033 | 0375726039
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/14/2002
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 Goddesscollects thirty-five of her urbane, inspiring, and deeply empathic essaysall 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.