Heartburn is a sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect soufflé. And in between trying to win Mark back and loudly wishing him dead, Ephron's irrepressible heroine offers some of her favorite recipes. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel writes cookbooks for a living. 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. Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband, Mark, is in love with another woman. This was in the 1960s and ’70s, when she contributed to Esquire. reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter. Ephron’s own husband Carl Bernstein cheated on her whilst she was pregnant, so, of course, she wrote about it. Nora Ephron was a star writer, talk show habitue and media darling when magazines were everything and such a career was possible. In this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally. A 40th anniversary reissue of Ephrons hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece-now with a new.

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. Proof that writing well is the best revenge.' - Chicago Tribune

Description A 40th anniversary reissue of Ephron's hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece-now with a new foreword by Stanley Tucci.

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