Sloth is a parody of every self-improvement book: instead of providing a manual to a more active and productive lifestyle, Wasserstein offers tips, encouragement and advice toward a successful life of sloth.
Wendy Wasserstein Poradie kníh (chronologicky)
Wendy Wassersteinová bola oceňovaná americká dramatička, ktorá sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriavala na životy a skúsenosti moderných žien. Jej hry často skúmali témy identity, ambícií a spoločenských očakávaní s vtipom a empatiou. Wassersteinová majstrovsky zachytávala zložitosť medziľudských vzťahov a hľadanie zmyslu v súčasnom svete.
The Future Dictionary of America
- 400 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.
In this delicious book of essays, Wendy Wasserstein perfects the urbane, wacky and compassionate sensibility that informed plays like her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heidi Chronicles