Maggie's Plan

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Pub Date May 02 2016 | Archive Date Sep 12 2016

Description

Maggie has a plan. She is a young, independent New Yorker determined to have a baby on her own—until she meets the handsome, married professor John. While his marriage falls apart, John and Maggie embark on their own romance—but three years later, Maggie’s not so sure she made the right decision. Time for a new plan— reuniting her new husband with his first wife!

Based on an unpublished novel by Karen Rinaldi, Maggie's Plan is an affectionate send-up of highbrow academic culture and a mediation on millennial self-realization. Rebecca Miller’s deft screenplay, now available from Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, exhibits her characteristic sensitivity to female experience, but with a playfulness given freer rein than ever before in her work.

Maggie has a plan. She is a young, independent New Yorker determined to have a baby on her own—until she meets the handsome, married professor John. While his marriage falls apart, John and Maggie...


Advance Praise

“Ms. Miller’s choices are hard to argue with.… She finds a tricky balance of farce, satire and emotional sincerity, a way of treating people as ridiculous without denying them empathy…it is also cleareyed, generous and funny — tart but not sour, sweet but not too sweet.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times (critic’s pick)

“Ms. Miller’s choices are hard to argue with.… She finds a tricky balance of farce, satire and emotional sincerity, a way of treating people as ridiculous without denying them empathy…it is also...


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ISBN 9781350005822
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