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Heartburn
Reader Score
85%
85% of readers
recommend this book
Between Two Books Club
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. In this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally... 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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: May 28th, 1996
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.92in - 5.30in - 0.52in - 0.43lb
- EAN: 9780679767954
- Categories: • Media Tie-In• Literary• Family Life - General
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What people are saying
"A book that I might even call one-of-a-kind... it’s a novel about infidelity, and heartbreak, and other things that aren’t happy, but it still reads as funny and even joyful at times. I reread it two weeks ago... and I just could not believe how well it has held up."
"A book very ahead of its time... Heartburn has everything of Nora contained within its pages. It is smart, witty, sensitive, dark and hopeful. When you read it, you will understand why it is as beloved as its author was by so many."
"In the 40th anniversary reissue of Nora Ephron's first novel, the writer behind "Sleepless in Seattle" and "When Harry Met Sally" memorably mixes food, heartbreak and revenge into comedy gold."
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
"A book that I might even call one-of-a-kind... it’s a novel about infidelity, and heartbreak, and other things that aren’t happy, but it still reads as funny and even joyful at times. I reread it two weeks ago... and I just could not believe how well it has held up."
"A book very ahead of its time... Heartburn has everything of Nora contained within its pages. It is smart, witty, sensitive, dark and hopeful. When you read it, you will understand why it is as beloved as its author was by so many."