Her other credits include the script for the stage hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore with Delia Ephron.
She wrote and directed the hit movie Julie & Julia and received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally., Silkwood, and Sleepless in Seattle, which she also directed. Harpers Bazaar About the Author NORA EPHRON is the author of the bestselling I Feel Bad About My Neck as well as Heartburn, Crazy Salad, Wallflower at the Orgy, and Scribble Scribble. The New York Times Book Review Nora Ephrons first novel is warm, witty and wise. Though Heartburn bristles ferociously with wit, its not lacking in soul. Proof that writing well is the best revenge. Heartburn is sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffle. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephrons irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. 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. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. From the Back Cover 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. Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffl.
reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. In this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally. Chicago Tribune 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. Book Synopsis A 40th anniversary reissue of Ephrons hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece-now with a new foreword by Stanley Tucci.
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