Books written by Wendy Wasserstein

Elements of Style

“Pippa Rose asked me to call you. Your patient Jennifer Rose was at Starbucks tonight after a rehearsal for The Nutcracker. Apparently, her foot was blown off in the explosion.” “Where is she?” “St. Luke's-Roosevelt.
The Seven Deadly Sins Set: Consisting of Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride

Available as a set through this special offer, here are seven engaging meditations on sin, written by some of our most eminent authors. Includes Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Sloth, Anger, and Pride.
Third

THE STORY: His name is Woodson Bull III, but you can call him Third.
Shiksa Goddess: (Or, How I Spent My Forties) Essays

It is about three young disaffected and privileged New Yorkers, one of whom is named Warren. Omar is really ticked off. “Girls always fall for jerks like Warren.” The usually silent Erica jumps on him: “That's not true!
An American Daughter

THE STORY: Set in Washington, D.C., AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER focuses on Dr. Lyssa Dent Hughes, a health care expert and forty-something daughter of a long-time Senator.
Isn't it Romantic

Office romance and all that . You're my boss's boss . PAUL . Harriet , do you know that 40 % of the people at McKinsey are having inter office affairs ? HARRIET . How do you know that ? PAUL . Friend of mine did the study .
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays

Three plays deal with recent college graduates deciding what to do with their lives, a woman trying to be a successful executive and mother, and an art historian changing with the times from the sixties to the eighties
Seven One-act Plays

Presents a collection of one-act plays, including "Waiting for Philip Glass," "Medea," and "The Man in a Case."
Old Money: A Play

In this dance of rich storytelling and social commentary, it becomes strikingly clear that while old money has become new, little else has changed over the years.
Uncommon Women and Others

THE STORY: Comprised of a collage of interrelated scenes, the action begins with a reunion, six years after graduation, of five close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College.
Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins

In the sixth volume in the seven-part series, a satire that pokes fun at the self-help industry and the legion of Americans who are political and cultural sloths guides readers step by step toward a life of noncommital inertia.
The Sisters Rosensweig

Three Jewish middle-aged sisters, originally from Brooklyn, come together in Queen Anne's Gate, London, to celebrate the fifty-fourth birthday of Sara, the eldest, now a brilliant British banker.
Pamela's First Musical

Pamela has the best birthday ever when her glamorous Aunt Louise takes her to see a Broadway musical.
Elements of Style

But when Wasserstein’s madcap tour of the social lives and mores of twenty-first-century Manhattan veers into tragedy, we finally see the true cost of her characters’ choices, and the beating heart of this dazzling novel.
Shiksa Goddess

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.
Bachelor Girls

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...
The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays

The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson.
Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins

Here is a rollicking parody of the self-help genre, one that skewers the couch-bound, apathetic mentality so pervasive in America today. With tongue in cheek, Sloth guides readers step-by-step toward a life of noncommittal inertia.
Pamela's First Musical

Pamela has the best birthday ever when her glamorous Aunt Louise takes her to see a Broadway musical.