Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Nora Ephron
• Title: Heartburn
• Publisher: ‎ Vintage Books; First Vintage Contemporaries Edition (May 28, 1996)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 179 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0679767959
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0679767954
• Item Weight: ‎ .45 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.2 x 0.53 x 8 inches
• Book Condition: Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries Edition

Synopsis:

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. In this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally… reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. The fact that the other woman has "a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs" is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes.

Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé.

About the Author:

Nora Ephron has received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, which she also directed. She lived in New York City with her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi.