The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Jane Wagner

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ISBN 10: 0060156732 ISBN 13: 9780060156732

Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1986

Language: English

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Inscribed by Lily Tomlin on half-title page; well cared for, clean, good binding, mild rubbing to the unclipped jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall.

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Title: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0060156732
ISBN 13: 9780060156732
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Lily Tomlin
Book Type: Book

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

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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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