Wit : A Play
by Margaret Edson

List Price: $14.00
Our Price: $5.29
You Save: $8.71 (62%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.74 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions

Book Summary Information

Book Reviews of Wit : A Play

Book Review: Wit is moving & enlightening!
Summary: 5 Stars

Being a woman of words, she muses upon every one that is tossed her way by her oncologist, his avid pupil & attending technicians. While they are telling her what their textbooks infer, she is listening to what their language implies. Therein lies the humor & the pathos!

Even as she endures the impersonal gawking of research doctors & their students she evaluates their teaching methods & their students' efforts, remembering her own method of teaching & her own attitude to students. Yet to this woman of words, whenever she is asked how she feels, she is immoderately polite & reticent only uttering that fatuous monosyllable: "Fine!"

W;t has been made into a film for HBO & will be aired in April 2001. Produced by Mike Nichols & starring one of my favorite actresses, Emma Thompson, W;t has come to a medium where everywoman can see & feel & be empowered by this learned lady's example. Made me think long on how we learn is how we teach; what would I do & be like were I to face this form of exit & keeping my wits about me.

I recommend you experience Wit - it will surely change your life! Do check out my full review & catch it on TV: as with taxes, death does come to us all, it's how we face it that makes Wit brilliant!

Arts & Photography Books

• Literature & Fiction