An edition of Heartburn (1983)

Heartburn

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Heartburn
Nora Ephron
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An edition of Heartburn (1983)

Heartburn

  • 4.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 36 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

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.

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Cover of: Heartburn
Heartburn
2008, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Cover of: Heartburn
Heartburn
1984, Pocket Books, Pocket
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Library of Congress
PS3555.P5

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OL29040000M
ISBN 13
9781844085170

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The first day I did not think it was funny.
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first sentence

I wanted a man who wasn't bald, who wasn't fat, who wasn't covered with too much body hair. I wanted a man with long legs and a small ass and laugh wrinkles around the eyes. Then I grew up and settled for a low-grade lunatic who kept hamsters.
Page 83, added by lalala.

funny

Maybe he's missed me, I thought as we came around the corner. Maybe he's come to his senses. Maybe he's remembered he loves me. Maybe he's full of remorse. There was a police car parked in front of the house. Maybe he's dead, I thought. That wouldn't solve everything, but it would solve a few things.
Page 149, added by lalala.

funny

"She's furious at me," I said. "That's rich." All my life I had wanted to say, "That's rich." Now I finally had gotten my chance. "That's really rich," I said. "Listen, you bastard. You tell Thelma that if she keeps calling here, I'll tell Betty she has the clap."
Page 150-151, added by lalala.

funny

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