Jake's Women
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0679430199 / Publisher: Random House, Inc., August 1994
Presents the script of a play in which middle-aged writer Jake comes to terms with the changes in his relationships with the women in his life
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In Jake's Women, America's favorite playwright has created a poignant comedy about a writer who wants to live his life in his head and the women who make him face the real thing.As a successful playwright who spends hours at his typewriter, Jake is used to having his mind filled with characters and dialogue. But now he's gotten into the habit of turning his own life into a script, of making up scenes in his head between himself and the women in his life - his wife, his sister, his therapist, his daughter. How else could he always have the last word? As his second marriage starts to crumble, however, these female "characters" seem to develop minds of their own. They enter Jake's days and nights at the most inconvenient moments with the most uncomfortably astute observations about his life.Mixing laughter and tears, Neil Simon has created an illuminating drama about a man who uncovers the pain and vulnerability in his life and discovers the courage to love.
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