The book was turned into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson and a very memorable postcoital spaghetti carbonara and we can watch that too. In her wake ex-husband Carl Bernstein spoke about their relationship post divorce. We will discuss fiction and autobiography, food, why everyone in the 1980's was obsessed with group therapy. The recent death of Nora Ephron has left farms mourning nationwide. Ephron’s own husband Carl Bernstein cheated on her whilst she was pregnant, so, of course, she wrote about it. Consider this description of the husband and his mistress: "My husband, a fairly short person, and Thelma Rice, a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs, never mind her feet, which are sort of splayed."Īnd there are recipes for comfort food throughout, including many varieties of potatoes! Add to the mix that the protagonist Rachel Samstat is a stand-in for Ephron and the whole thing is a roman à clef about her breakup from Carl Bernstein. (Her first marriage to humorist Dan Greenburg ended amicably). The 1983 best-selling novel was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1986. Lucky for us this book is written by the late Nora Ephron (she of When Harry Met Sally and I Feel Bad About My Neck, but this is before that) and it's hilarious and gossipy and deep. Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, chronicles the breakdown of her second marriage to Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, the father of her two sons, Jacob and Max. Heartburn could have been a real bummer of a novel-it's about a cookbook author who discovers her husband is cheating on her while she's seven months pregnant.
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