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An American Daughter Audio Book
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An American Daughter
Author:
Wendy Wasserstein
Performers: Mary McDonnell and David Birney
A respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother is the perfect choice for U.S. Surgeon General – until a chance remark at a brunch sets off a media frenzy. A Publishers Weekly Best Audio, Dramatization, 1999. By the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. "One of America's best plays... poignant and hilarious."—AudioFile
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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Audio CDs ( 2 ) |
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Publish Date: 01/01/1900
ISBN: 9781580811866
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| DP9411 |
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Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, the wife of a professor, the owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover a mistake from her past: not to have responded to a call for jury duty. A relatively minor misstep--were it not for a good friend who uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly by while the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world.
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Author Bio:
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Wendy Wasserstein's plays explored the tension between the modern American woman's feminist ideals and the societal pressure to pursue the more traditional route to female success and happiness--i.e., through their relationships with men. The daughter of an amateur dancer mother and a textiles manufacturer father, Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn in 1950. She attended the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, and then went on to Mount Holyoke, earning a B.A. in history. After picking up an M.A. for creative writing at City College of New York, where she studied writing with Israel Horovitz and Joseph Heller, Wasserstein attended Yale Drama School, from which she graduated in 1976 with an M.F.A. Her first major work was UNCOMMON WOMEN AND OTHERS. Inspired by her experiences at Mount Holyoke, the play originally starred Glenn Close and Swoosie Kurtz; Meryl Streep replaced Close in the PBS television adaptation. Wasserstein's most famous work, 1989's THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, won the Pulitzer Prize as well as the Tony and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for best play. In addition to her plays, which included THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG, AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, and her final play, THIRD, Wasserstein wrote two books of essays, BACHELOR GIRLS and SHIKSA GODDESS, and contributed to the Oxford University Press's series on the seven deadly sins with her caricature of self-help guides, SLOTH. Her sole novel, THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, a look at the post-9/11 Manhattan upper crust, was published posthumously in April 2006. Wendy Wasserstein died January 30, 2006, of lymphoma.
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