The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Wagner, Jane; Lily Tomlin

ISBN 10: 0060156732 / ISBN 13: 9780060156732

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1986

About this Item

First printing of the stated first edition, green cloth boards, illustrated with black-n-white photographs. Inscribed by Jane Wagner for cosmetic queen, Mary Kay: To Mary Kay / KEEP TEACHING! / Warmest love & goose bumps! / Jane Wagner; and signed by Lily Tomlin below Wagner's signature. Faint toning to outer edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light wear and a short diagonal crease to upper corner of front flap, else fine. A lovely copy.

Seller Inventory # 023277

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060156732
• ISBN 13: 9780060156732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Norman Seef (Author photo); Ron Lieberman
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • A Collection of Women Writers

About this title

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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