

Heartburn
Author: Nora Ephron
Narrator: Meryl Streep
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 07/09/2013
Categories: Fiction, Women, Humorous, Family Life
Author: Nora Ephron
Narrator: Meryl Streep
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 07/09/2013
Categories: Fiction, Women, Humorous, Family Life
Nora Ephron was the author of the bestselling I Feel Bad About My Neck as well as Heartburn, Crazy Salad, Wallflower at the Orgy, and Scribble Scribble. 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. Her other credits include the script for the stage hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore with Delia Ephron. She died in 2012.
This is one of those books that shows you how much a writer can get away with when they possess a strong voice. Heartburn is a fun novel about marital infidelity but it only hits one note. There's no depth or complexity to the story. Instead, it reads like a comedic monologue albeit a very enjoyable......more
like every normal seventeen year old, i spent my time reading witty novels from the 1980s about divorce. and i had a good time doing it. part of a series i'm doing in which i halfheartedly review books i read a long time ago......more
This was my second read of Ephron’s sole novel, a fictionalized version of how her high-profile marriage to journalist Carl Bernstein exploded in the public eye after he had an affair with someone while Ephron was seven months pregnant with their second child. Some parts of the book have aged badly.......more
“Touching and funny . . . Proof that writing well is the best revenge.”— Chicago Tribune
“Great fun . . . Though Heartburn bristles ferociously with wit, it’s not lacking in soul.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Nora Ephron’s first novel is warm, witty and wise.”—Harper’s Bazaar
“Filled with home truths and hilarity.”—Cosmopolitan
“Witty all the time.”—Vanity Fair