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Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, by Julie Salamon

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“[Salamon’s] fresh reporting . . . gives the book a live, romping air, very much keeping with its subject . . . Wendy and the Lost Boys reads more like a novel than a biography.”  — THE NEW YORK TIMES“Excellent…Salamon’s voice is like that of a Wasserstein character, a late-night girlfriend who tells you the truth, but confidentially, and sideways.” — THE NEW YORKER“Top-notch…a penetrating biography. The book, less a literary reckoning with Wasserstein’s legacy than a frank character study, is superbly paced. [T]he work unfolds with an alacrity that had me fearing the end not just because it was such a tartly compelling read but because it's still so hard to accept a theatrical world without Wasserstein around to make it seem so much more magical.”  — THE LOS ANGELES TIMES“Intriguing” — PEOPLE Magazine“Engaging new biography” — THE ECONOMIST“Julie Salamon is a helluva journalist and her Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein is a helluva story.” — NEW YORK DAILY NEWS“Perceptive and empathetic, but also gently unsparing—a superbly nuanced portrait”       — KIRKUS (starred review)

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About the Author

Julie Salamon is the author of Hospital, about Maimonides Hospital, as well as The New York Times bestseller The Christmas Tree; the true-crime book Facing the Wind; the novel White Lies; the film classic The Devil’s Candy; a family memoir, The Net of Dreams; and Rambam’s Ladder. Previously a reporter and critic with The Wall Street Journal, she has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Republic.

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Product details

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (July 31, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143121391

ISBN-13: 978-0143121398

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.1 out of 5 stars

65 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,023,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

But ok, who isn't complicated? It was a thoroughly researched work about a time and place I remember fondly; my college years at NYU when Chris Durang, Andre and Wendy were the stars of the New York theater world. I never knew her and it was fascinating to find out about a person who at times I adored and at times I found cold and manipulative - as I am sure she herself was manipulated. We want to think of idols as perfect. This is not that kind of book. It's an honest look behind the curtain and for that it deserves a read. That is not to say it shines an unflattering light on her - it merely tells the truth about what it was like to be her, as much as a book can.My one issue is the title - a reference to Peter Pan that, while seemingly clever, was not worth misleading the reader and does no justice to its subject. This book is about Wendy and her life and yes there are men in it, and women and children who all play important roles. It seems strange to me to give short shrift to the whole of her by titling it something indicating an ensemble piece. It is not. It is simply the uncommon life of Wendy Wasserstein. I hope she knew what it was like to be truly loved and more important what it was like to truly and selflessly love back.

Wendy Wasserstein and Julie Salamon are a match made in bio heaven. I loved this book for its knowing grasp of how Wendy Wasserstein, her work and her life, became a mirror for so many boomer concerns--especially for we women of a certain age who found ourselves caught between the demands of our families and our personal ambitions and struggled mightily to define ourselves. I loved it for showing exactly how an artist's life, good and bad, creates her. You needn't be a fan of WW's work to appreciate how that life--her crazy family, her vulnerability about her appearance, her pleasures in and doubts about her innate talent, her capacity for and need of complicated friendships as a replacement for family, the secrets she kept, the steely ambition beneath the girlish giggle--informed her work. I loved Salamon's insight into Wendy's fierce love for and competition with her powerful brother Bruce. As a transplanted New Yorker and a (Jewish, female) writer myself, I loved the gossip element of this book--the glimpses of all those boldfaced names that peopled Wendy's world during these tumultuous decades. I loved the way Salamon gives us a close-up view of how artists who happen to come up through the ranks at a particular moment in time (Ivy League, East Coast division in this case) create and define a cultural moment. Any woman who has wished her gay best friend could also be her mate will identify with Wendy's difficulties finding a life partner. Salamon's account of WW's desire for a child, accomplished in a third act cut way too short, is particularly moving. I didn't know Wendy Wasserstein though I might have, brushing up as I did against the worlds she walked through. But I hated finishing this book. I felt as if I'd lost a friend. Bravo.

Julie Salamon's new biography of Wendy Wasserstein is a critical look at both Wasserstein's life and work. It is very well-written - as all books by Salamon are - but the woman who emerges on Salamon's pages still seems like an enigma. I'm not sure I "knew" Wendy Wasserstein any better after reading the book than before I read it. And that's not Salamon's fault; I think Wendy Wasserstein was so many things - each different to every person in her life - that I'm not sure there was full person there. That's not a criticism of Wasserstein, either, but rather a frank appraisal of the family she came from and the world she functioned in. Sometimes, she seemed to me to "observe" society through her writing rather than participating in it.Born into an upwardly mobile Jewish family, Wendy was surrounded by the secrets many families hold. "Polite people" didn't discuss the fractures that death and divorce and mental illness often bring to a family. There were many secrets in her family, most she didn't know til she reached adulthood. Hers was a family where the children excelled in both school and business. Her brother Bruce and her sister Sandra were both business successes, while Wendy - the youngest - found herself adrift in the 1960's college life at Mt Holyoke and the years after. She was the "creative" Wasserstein, and, in her own way, found herself as famous as brother Bruce. She wrote timely plays about the women in her world, both at a macro-level about the women of her generation and at a micro-level about the women in her immediate family.But if Wendy Wasserstein found respect and friendship through her writing, she also seemed not to have a lot of personal self-confidence. Not the sleek, beautiful "golden girl" she thought she saw around her, her relationship with men tended to be with gay men. Are they the "Lost Boys" of the title? Perhaps so but most of them were loyal and loving to Wendy, but disappointing her in the end by not being totally available to her. Wendy dearly wanted a child and tried throughout her 40's to conceive. A final, last-ditch effort resulted in her only pregnancy when she was 48. Her lovely daughter, Lucy Jane, was loved by Wendy. Unfortunately, Wendy's early death when Lucy Jane was 6 years old, deprived her of her mother (Lucy Jane's father was never identified). She went to live with her uncle Bruce and his family, but Bruce died a few years later.Julie Salamon's writing is excellent. Two of her best books are "Net of Dreams", a book about her parents' experiences during the Holocaust and eventual settling in the United States and "The Devil's Candy", flat-out the best book about movie making I've ever read. I wish I liked this book a little better; I'd have given it five stars instead of four.

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