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Focuses on the life of Mabel Tidings Bigelow, the first woman to swim the English Channel, at ages 10 through 90.

Gauguin's epithet serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both in their sixties, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understand. Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight. One day to her door comes Angela Beale, a woman she has met only once, who is now enjoying sudden success, late in life, as a popular novelist. The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course...

"The first person to fail Hilda is her mother. This we gather when she returns to her small-town home to "pick up the pieces" after two marriages and two divorces in New York. The indication is that mama didn't give her "the right answers" at the start. And (allowing that there are any "right answers") the evidence is that she still isn't giving them"--Nytimes.com

Alina Troyano's one-woman shows, plays, and essays have astonished audiences and readers with their creativity, humor, and crackling political energy. I, Carmelita Tropicana offers the first comprehensive collection of her work, from "Memorias de la Revolucion" (with Uzi Parnes) to "Your Kunst is Your Waffen" (with Ela Troyano).

An 83-year-old reminisces about her Depression-era life in the town of Whistle Stop, Alabama.

"Looking for a little rest and time by herself, Betty rents a summer share at the beach. But Betty's luck turns to delicious lunacy when this sensible Everywoman gets drawn into the chaotic world of some very unsavory housemates--her friend Trudy, who talks too much; the lewd, seminaked Buck, who tries to have sex with everyone; and Keith, a serial killer who hides in his room with a mysterious hatbox. With sand between her toes, walking a thin line...

This volume includes 24 audition scenes for 1 man and 1 woman, and 21 scenes for 2 women from the 1980's.

Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, created a masterwork of modern theater. As an imperious, acerbic old woman lies dying, she is tended by two other women and visited by a young man. Albee's frank dialogue about everything from incontinence to infidelity portrays aging without sentimentality. His scenes are charged with wit, pain, and laughter, and his observations tell us about forgiveness,...

A moving drama of the complexities of marriage and personal transformation. Two men meet in a visitors' room at a mental hospital where their wives are being treated for nervous breakdowns. As the women mutually discover a well-spring of strength and hope inside themselves, they set out to englihten their husbands and transform their marriages.