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About Wendy Wasserstein
See more books from this AuthorCharacters occasionally mention the anxieties of living in post-9/11 New York, but the main impact of that event seems to be spending a Christmas in Palm Beach instead of traveling abroad.
Mar 01 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleThe cover art for Wendy Wasserstein's "Elements of Style" makes this book look like an expensive present.
Apr 20 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleTHE playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first and last novel, "Elements of Style," is emblematic of her life and career: it's a bright social comedy that takes a sudden, tragic turn.
Apr 23 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleEmblematic of Wendy Wasserstein's life, her only novel is a social comedy that takes a sudden, tragic turn.
Apr 23 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleNixon (Sex and the City ) crafts tones and speech patterns for Wasserstein's Upper East Side rich and famous that simultaneously satirize and humanize them.
Jul 10 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleHer first novel is quintessential Wendy: bookish heroine (pediatrician Frankie Weissman, who's smart, single, and stranded), glam Manhattan settings (cocktails at Bemelmans Bar, dinner at Da Silvano, shopping on Madison Avenue), and stiletto-sharp satire (mostly of superrich, social-climbing la...
Apr 19 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleJoanne Kaufman Minneapolis Star Tribune 1 of 5 Stars "While Wasserstein does reference the great ‘society’ novels of Edith Wharton and Mary McCarthy, this is more Danielle Steele than Anthony Trollope or even Tom Wolfe.
Aug 29 2007 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleBy mocking the characters and their lifestyles as she does, however, Wasserstein succeeds in preventing the story from ever reaching any real depth.
Apr 28 2006 | Read Full Review of Elements of StyleAn aggregated and normalized score based on 43 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes