{"product_id":"9780394561998","title":"Bachelor Girls","description":" \u003cp\u003eIn plays such as Isn't It Romantic, Uncommon Women and Others, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles, 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 Bachelor Girls, in which Wasserstein presents her observations on:\u003cbr\u003e— Boyfriends — \"The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill.\"\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— Success — \"I knew my friend Patti was a big-time Hollywood agent the first time I saw her dial a telephone with a pencil.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 Isn't It Romantic, Bachelor Girls is pure Wasserstein, which is to say, pure joy.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013031805168,"sku":"9780394561998","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780394561998","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}