Heartburn, Nora Ephron
Heartburn, Nora Ephron
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Heartburn

Author: Nora Ephron

Narrator: Meryl Streep

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/09/2013

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

About The Author

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on November 24, 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

Goodreads review by Sophia on July 09, 2022

All I have to say is FUCK MARK......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 06, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Glenn on March 25, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 04, 2018

Just felt like laughing, so picked this book up to visit with again. Fave quote: "Show me a woman who cries when the trees lose their leaves in autumn, and I'll show you a real asshole."......more

Quotes

“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

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