| Much ADO about Jessie Kaplan Contributor(s): Cohen, Paula Marantz (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312324995 ISBN-13: 9780312324995 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: From the bestselling author of "Jane Austen in Boca, "" another witty tale that combines classic literature with contemporary social comedy." ---"Hartford Courant" Carla Goodman' s life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her son' s teachers say he needs Ritalin, and she' s in the throes of planning her daughter' s bat mitzvah. But it' s her sweet widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has Carla worried, for Jessie has suddenly " remembered" that she was Shakespeare' s Dark Lady of the Sonnets in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book, "How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, "help with a problem like this? Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, "Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan" is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Adaptations & Pastiche |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.62" W x 8.38" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
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| Publisher Description: From the bestselling author of Jane Austen in Boca, another witty tale that combines classic literature with contemporary social comedy.---Hartford Courant Carla Goodman's life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her son's teachers say he needs Ritalin, and she's in the throes of planning her daughter's bat mitzvah. But it's her sweet widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has Carla worried, for Jessie has suddenly remembered that she was Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, help with a problem like this?Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cohen, Paula Marantz: - Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of the novels, Jane Austen in Boca, Jane Austen in Scarsdale, and Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan, and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth and The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life. She lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with her husband and two children. |