Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Ephron, Nora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844085171 ISBN 13: 9781844085170

Publisher: Virago, 2008

Synopsis

Rachel Samstat is smart, successful, married to a high-flying Washington journalist - and devastated. She has discovered that her husband is having an affair with Thelma Rice.

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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. 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.

About the Author:

Nora Ephron (1941-2012) 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 and was married to the writer Nicholas Pileggi

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844085171
• ISBN 13: 9781844085170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192