Rivke in Wonderland

"Rivke" is the story of one day in the life of a fifty year old woman in New York City. It is also the story of every American woman who is "lucky" enough to reach the age of fifty alive! This story can be yours if you are lucky enough to be an American woman who is over fifty and still alive and kicking.

"Rivke" is the story of one day in the life of a fifty year old woman in New York City. It is also the story of every American woman who is "lucky" enough to reach the age of fifty alive! This story can be yours if you are lucky enough to be an American woman who is over fifty and still alive and kicking. This very original book solves the fascinating psychological puzzle -- What do women really want and what do they believe they really want? In one crucial day of her life, the heroine of this novel is buggered and mugged, raped and drugged and her apartment gets painted too!

With a rounded background in theater from summer stock to Shakespeare to Chekov to standup comedy and every stop in between, including improvision with such companies as New Liberty Vaudville and Unexpected Company and Hot Peaches, Rhoda Carroll Fairman turned to writing, from playwriting to screen writing to Rivke in Wonderland, her first novel. Rivke in Wonderland is a chimerical novel, a composite of realism, fantasy; a collection of thousands of pages of journals, overheard conversations, fireside confessions, bedside denials, tea leaf readings, etc.