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Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.

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Main Author: Weiner, Jennifer
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2012.
Edition:1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Women screenwriters > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.
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Summary:Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
Physical Description:389 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781451617764
9781451617757
1451617755
Author Notes:Jennifer Weiner grew up in Simsbury, Connecticut. She attended Princeton University, where she studied with John McPhee, Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. She is currently a reporter/columnist at the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and a contributing editor at "Mademoiselle". Her short stories have been published in "Seventeen" and "Redbook". Her freelance work appears in Salon.com, "Time Out New York", "Animal Fair", the "Columbia Journalism Review" and "Seventeen". She lives in Philadelphia and appears regularly on "Philly after Midnight," Philadelphia's local late-night television show, as a commentator.

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