The Heidi Chronicles.
WASSERSTEIN, Wendy.
The Heidi Chronicles.
First Edition of The Heidi Chronicles; Inscribed by Wendy Wasserstein
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1990.
$375.00
In Stock
Item Number: 149087
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Liz – All best – Wendy Wasserstein.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1988), which won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, is a landmark work of late twentieth-century American theater that examines the shifting roles and expectations of women in the wake of second-wave feminism. Through the life of Heidi Holland, an art historian navigating professional ambition, friendship, and the challenges of personal fulfillment, Wasserstein dramatizes the tensions between feminist ideals and the compromises demanded by social and cultural realities from the 1960s to the 1980s.
