A Thousand Wives Dancing

About the Book

A Thousand Wives Dancing is about upheavals in the lives of couples as they impact on each other in the summer community of Provincetown. There are breakups, reconciliations, suicides, and deaths. The novel deals with the group´s changing attitudes towards marital and extra marital relationships, pornography, ritual, art and individuality.

About the Author

Helen Duberstein's novel, THE DREAM OF REWARDS, was nominated for the Pushcart Press Tenth Annual Editors Award. Her fiction, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in the New Republic, The Village Voice, Commentary, Liberation, and other publications. She participated in the early formation of the Living Theatre, was a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre Company, and worked with the Theatre for the New City. Her plays have been performed by major experimental companies throughout the United States, Europe and South America. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY, her latest book of poetry, has been adapted as a performance piece with music and dance.