The Sisters Rosensweig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of The Sisters Rosensweig.

The Sisters Rosensweig | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of The Sisters Rosensweig.
This section contains 325 words
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SOURCE: A review of The Sisters Rosensweig, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 30, 1993, p. 6.

In the following review, Raskin offers a mixed assessment of The Sisters Rosensweig.

One reason Wendy Wasserstein's characters are so compelling is that they have been invented by such a half-breed: a feminist playwright who can't seem to ignore the enticing call of the comfy Jewish suburban family. You can hear this call in the play that won her the Pulitzer Prize, The Heidi Chronicles, which ended happily when the heroine adopts a baby to raise on her own. And you can feel it intimately in the relationship at the center of this play. Sara, a 54-year-old British financier with "the biggest balls at the Hong Kong/Shanghai bank," "no longer sees the necessity for romance" until she meets Merv, a 58-year-old furrier ("Shhh! Please, synthetic animal covering," he tells progressive clients). Vintage...

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This section contains 325 words
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Buy the Critical Review by Alex Raskin
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