Contemporary Literary Criticism | Wasserstein, Wendy (Vol. 183) - Joanne Kirschner (review date 1990)

Joanne Kirschner (review date 1990)

SOURCE: Kirschner, Joanne. Review of Bachelor Girls, by Wendy Wasserstein. West Coast Review of Books 15, no. 4 (1990): 44-5.

[In the following review, Kirschner praises the humor and satire that informs the principal themes of Bachelor Girls.]

This collection of essays by Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein [Bachelor Girls] includes enjoyable, funny reading as well as satirical social commentary that is short and gossipy enough to keep even the most skeptical reader interested.

Wasserstein's view of the world includes everything from the stark and serious, such as her anxiety-ridden trip to Rumania—to the satirical, such as in her article “The Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: The New Agony of Single Men,” a riotous takeoff on the horrible clamor that was created in the media during the mid-’80s regarding single women and their reduced chances of finding husbands. She's...

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