(SIGNED) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Jane Wagner

ISBN 10: 0060156732 / ISBN 13: 9780060156732

Published by Harpercollins, 1986

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Hardcover Cloth 223 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition First printing 1986 with corresponding number line. Lovely green boards and gilt embossing spotlights this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Bumped corners. An unclipped dust jacket is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add Biblio or ABEBooks listing 657791 or eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase.A remarkable exploration of the human condition, told through the voices of diverse and vividly realized characters. This groundbreaking work, originally written as a one-woman play performed by Lily Tomlin, uses humor, poignancy, and sharp social commentary to delve into themes of connection, identity, and societal expectations.Wagner's writing masterfully intertwines the cosmic and the personal, contrasting the vastness of the universe with the intimate struggles and triumphs of individual lives. Through its witty observations and profound insights, the text invites readers to reflect on the complexities of existence and the shared experiences that define humanity.Jane Wagner is an American writer, director and producer. Wagner is best known as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator and life partner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: (SIGNED) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060156732
• ISBN 13: 9780060156732
• Binding: Hard
• Edition: 22.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The text of the Broadway play, captures the last twenty years of American culture

Reviews

This play is Wagner's latest starring vehicle for Lily Tomlin, and it is a wonderfully comic and painful dose of truth direct to the heart. In this satire, a form all too lacking in American theater, Trudy the bag lady, Wagner's central character, tries to explain modern American material society to an alien (i.e., interstellar) committee. In the first act a variety of types are seen suffering in their lives. The more full of anxiety and terror they are, the funnier and more disturbing the play is. The focus of the second act, tied to the people of the first act, is a group of women who live through the social fads of the 1970s and 1980swomen trying to make something real enter their lives, but who live desperate and superficial existences. Yet the play ends with a hymn to the creative spirit. The text is lavishly illustrated with performance pictures. Required reading. Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll., Mass.
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