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Brilliant journalist Nora Ephron has concocted an acidic first novel from the ingredients of a two-career couple's life in New York and Washington and on the Eastern Shuttle in between. She garnished it with recipes from protagonist Rachel Samstat, the pregnant celebrity cookbook author who finds out her husband is having an affair, and serves it with witty commentary on sex, betrayal, jealousy, divorce, and therapy. The result is "Heartburn", a story that will leave you laughing through the tears.
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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. 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. 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 sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffle.
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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 lives in New York City with her husband, writer Nicholas Pileggi.
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- PublisherPavanne / Pan Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0330293990
- ISBN 13 9780330293990
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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