Woman Wanted [Paperback]

Joanna McClelland Glass (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 2000

Woman Wanted is the story of a Boston Irish lass who moves to New Haven to housekeep for a widowed Yale professor and his troubled son. "A spunky tale recounted with high good humor", Publisher's Weekly. "A steadily amusing muddle of collisions and cross-purposes." The Atlantic Monthly. The 1999 film stars Holly Hunter, Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Moriarity.

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"A steadily amusing muddle of collisions and cross-purposes." -- The Atlantic Monthly

About the Author

Joanna McClelland Glass wrote the screenplay for Woman Wanted. She has written one other novel, Reflections on a Mountain Summer, published by Knopf in 1974. She is the author of seven published plays: Canadian Gothic, American Modern, Artichoke, To Grandmother's House We Go, Play Memory, If We Are Women and Yesteryear.

Product Details

• Paperback: 292 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (March 21, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595089259
• ISBN-13: 978-0595089253
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,111,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Way better than the movie..., May 30, 2004

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JaneEyrez "janeeyrez" (Port Orange, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman Wanted (Paperback)

I caught most of the movie, enough to make me curious about the source material. The movie seems very melodramatic and sad. The book is more humorous, sometimes reminding me of Tom Robbins' novels, although not quite so whimsical. I liked the ride, but I'm not sure I enjoyed the destination. The heroine's decision at the end seemed very selfish, in a way, but it would be giving away the plot to explain why I felt that way.