Beautiful Wasps Having Sex

By Dori Carter

Book Overview

Meet Frankie Jordan, a screenwriter living a rather perilous life in the wilds of Hollywood. She's turning forty, her husband wants a divorce, and all she can think about is the script she can't... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688174647
• ISBN13: 9780688174644
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

A hearty, satisfying, funny read

I so enjoyed reading this book, and had to write a review to thank Carter for making me laugh at so many points. This is an insightful, warm, hysterical read. I especially recommend it to readers interested in the following three topics:1) Jews in Hollywood2) Relations between Jews and WASPs3) The Writing Life/Screenwriting LifeAs an filmic accompaniment to this book, I recommend the devastating "Quiz Show," which makes similiar points in an equally engaging and provocative way (though Dori Carter's take is much funnier). This book would make a great movie!

Dori Carter Skewers Hollywood

Dori Carter is a writer with a keen mind and a rapier pen. Her novel is wry from the title on: there are virtually no WASPS in the book,which is populated by Jews engaged in the business of making movies and each other.The focal character is a struggling script writer,(as was Ms Carter), Frankie Jordan ,who gets battered by a rough crowd of producers,writers,and agents. The story is often laugh outloud funny,somtimes moving and,in one instance,profound in its comments about the Jewish experience. This goy learned that the movie business is not unlike the making of sausage. And he will certainly look for the next book by Dori Carter.

Funny, Entertaining, a Fast Read

I absolutely loved Dori Carter's book, in fact, I forced myself to put it down, because it was so much fun to read, I didn't want to read it too fast. I always love reading Hollywood stories,especially the nitty gritty...what really goes on. At times, I was laughing so hard, I had tears in my eyes. Read it, you won't be sorry.

Beautiful wasps making beautiful reading

it's rare to read a book that is both an insiders guide to an interesting subject matter, ie. hollywood movie scene, and at that same time provide such great entertainment to the on going relationship between the jewish world and that of the wasp. Sad, funny, entertaining, informative, etc. - all in one. A rarity and hopefully this writer has another one in the oven.

A Great Summer Read

Beautiful Wasps Having Sex has been permanantly added to my bookshelf of great new discoveries. I happened to find the book a week after I'd quit my job, and at a time when I was struggling with my own Jonathan Prince. (Hollywood isn't the only place where people like Jonathan exist.) What a great pleasure to read this book, and to get lost in the humorous, touching excapades of a character I not only liked but related to. The novel abounds with humorous and dead on observations about the way we live today, and the increasingly small role creativity and originality play in Hollywood and the world at large. When I wasn't laughing at the trevails of Frankie Jordon, I was nodding in recognition.