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title: "Heartburn (Vintage Contemporaries)"
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# Heartburn (Vintage Contemporaries)

**Brand:** nora ephron
**Price:** ¥3702
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## Customer Reviews

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    Revenge Fiction! A Somewhat Dated Novel About Infidelity, Love, and Divorce—Complete with Recipes
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2023*

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned," is the famous line from the 1697 play "The Mourning Bride," by William Congreve. And Washington Post journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame knows this firsthand.This novel by Nora Ephron, Bernstein's ex-wife, is revenge fiction that is so true-to-life it made a lot of people squirm when it was first published in 1983. Nora and Carl were married from 1976 to 1980 and were considered one of Washington's power couples. He had an affair with Margaret Jay, the daughter of the British Prime Minister James Callaghan. and left Nora while she was pregnant with their second child. So Nora did what any talented writer would do: She wrote a novel. Changed the names but kept to the facts.While the book, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year (2023), is dated, it's a quintessential D.C. novel of the 1980s.Prominent food writer Rachel Samstat is seven months pregnant with her second child when she finds out that her husband, Mark Feldman, is having a none-too-secret affair with Thelma Rice, a Washington socialite. Insecure and overanxious Rachel flees from their Washington, D.C. home to her father's apartment in New York City—with their two-year-old son in tow—filled with angst and anger. And lots of tears. Much of the story is spent denigrating Mark (not surprisingly), while celebrating their very wealthy, intellectual lifestyle. Hey, it was the 1980s. In DC and NYC. Rachel gets her revenge by (falsely) gossiping about a lurid and frightening lie about Thelma. Parts of it are petty, while parts are just sad.The novel is amusing, especially if you know the real-life history behind it, but it's nothing more than that. I haven't seen the movie, but I'm guessing it's better than the book. And that may be the most unusual twist of all.Bonus: The narrative is often interrupted with one of Rachel's recipes—from a casserole of lima beans and pears to cheesecake to linguine alla cecca to pot roast. Oh, and potatoes. Rachel (Nora?) loves potatoes! Read the book and you might get some ideas for the dinner menu.

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    Crackling good read from Nora Ephron.
  

*by M***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2023*

Nora Ephron never wrote a loser story.  "Heartburn" is an adorable read.  And she included several easy and yummy recipes.  My favorite recipe was a simple, delicious mashed potato recipe.  It's a hoot.Mostly auto-biography,  letting us set right there and watch her marriage to the " Watergate/ All The Presidents Men" author Carl Bernstein.  I am a huge fan of both Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein but man that Carl was a real dog of a husband.  In the end Nora came out so much better than Carl.Shame on you, Carl Bernstein.Rest in peace, lovely Nora and thanks for another winner.

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    Forty years later, it‘s still a really good read
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023*

The film with Meryl Streep was so good— and the book is even better. I read it first when it came out 40 years ago. Just re-read it, and older and wiser me thinks it‘s still a great read.

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