{"product_id":"9780679730620","title":"Bachelor Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Boyfriends:  \"The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003ci\u003eIsn't It Romantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBachelor Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is pure Wasserstein, which is to say, pure joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019773952240,"sku":"9780679730620","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679730620_p0.jpg?v=1763606752","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679730620","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}