Bachelor Girls

by Wendy Wasserstein

Book Overview

In 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:

--Boyfriends: The worse the boyfriend, the more stunning your American Express bill.

--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.

--Success: I knew my friend Patti was a big-time Hollywood agent the first time I saw her dial a telephone with a pencil.

Ranging 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679730621
• ISBN13: 9780679730620
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

80's New York City Yuppie Nostalgia but it carries over!

I love Wendy Waserstein...in 1988 (at 13 years old) I saw the Heidi Chronicles on Broadway and loved it. I never knew that almost 17 years later I would actually be Heidi. Wendy Waserstein is an incredible journalist of the single woman's life in NYC no matter what the decade is... She understands the dilemma of professionalism vs. being the "woman who has it all".

Funny and Honest

I enjoyed this novel. The chapters are very humerous and honest - Ms. Wasserstein clearly enjoys laughing at herself. My best friend read my copy, as did my sister, mother, and grandmother. Everyone reported rave reviews for Wasserstein's talent. My copy of Bachelor Girks was last seen with my college professor, and I hope that it continues to circulate.