Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

I am not a great reader of comic novels, but Ephron's hilarious, recipe-strewn, semi-autobiographical account of a heavily pregnant woman whose husband has left her for a woman with a 'neck as long as an arm' is a treat. A perfect example of Ephron's gift for turning tragedy into comedy, Heartburn is evidence that revenge is indeed a dish best served cold [Ephron] chatters up a storm, always on the verge of wisecracking up What really interested Ephron, for all her clever writing about food, politics and overcluttered purses, were matters of the heart. She is the exact opposite of Dorothy Parker. She is wit without cynicism, the ultimate romantic I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel. There is not a wrong word - about food, marriage, life, love, loss Full of cynicism and gags, this autobiographical novel is comic writing at its finest Heartburn took the most miserable personal situation and made it hysterically funny, inspiring and utterly relatable to women of all ages. I became obsessed with its author and thinly disguised heroine Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more) It is snortingly funny in its depiction of the death throes of a relationship. And it bursts with recipes. What more could you ask for? 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 I kept a copy of Nora Ephron's Heartburn next to me as a reminder of how to be funny and truthful, and all I ended up doing was ignoring my writing and rereading Heartburn The real magic of the novel comes from Ephron's nonchalant conversationalism