Heartburn

Zusatztext Not just the funniest novel ever written about divorce, but the funniest novel ever. Only the truly talented make writing as good as this look easy Informationen zum Autor Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and film director of When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle , You've Got Mail and Julie & Julia . She was also a bestselling novelist (Heartburn , made into a film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep) and journalist. Her last books I Feel Bad About My Neck and I Remember Nothing were both huge international bestsellers. She died in 2012. Klappentext Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a 'neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb' is no consolation. Food sometimes is, though, since Rachel is a cookery writer, and between trying to win Mark back and wishing him dead, she offers us some of her favourite recipes. HEARTBURN is a roller coaster of love, betrayal, loss and - most satisfyingly - revenge.This is Nora Ephron's (screenwriter of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE) roman a clef: 'I always thought during the pain of the marriage that one day it would make a funny book,' she once said - And it is!The autobiographical novel by Nora Ephron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally) and successful director (Sleepless in Seattle), is a bittersweet book about love and loss Zusammenfassung The autobiographical novel by Nora Ephron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally) and successful director (Sleepless in Seattle), is a bittersweet book about love and loss

Product details

• Authors: Nora Ephron
• Assisted by: Nora Ephron (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 08.05.2008
• EAN: 9781844085170
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-517-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 131 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Adult & contemporary romance, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy, FICTION / Classics, contemporary romance, Humour, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction