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A 40th anniversary reissue of the national bestselling author's hilarious first novel that memorably mixed food, heartbreak, and revenge into a comic masterpiece—now with a new foreword by Stanley Tucci. • "Touching and funny.... Proof that writing well is the best revenge." —Chicago Tribune 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. In this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally... 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; Reissue edition (May 28, 1996)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 179 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 4


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 54


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.53 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #69,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #668 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #2,963 in Contemporary Women Fiction #5,386 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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    • A story for all times
This story never gets old. We have all been in this kind of place. She just does a great job and telling the story.
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023 by Book Fan
    • Revenge Fiction! A Somewhat Dated Novel About Infidelity, Love, and Divorce—Complete with Recipes
"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. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2023 by Cathryn Conroy
    • everybody is cheating?
Maybe I’m an optimist, but it seemed like this book treated cheating in marriage as a certainty- literally everyone was or had been cheating. I love Ms. Ephron’s writing style, but this book was just too much and too cynical to enjoy. The ending was so abrupt that it felt like there should’ve been an epilogue. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2022 by Ohio Customer
    • Great book!
This is a great uplifting story spun around life changing moments. Made me laugh and want to try some mew recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023 by Kelly P.
    • Nora, mother of wit
I loved the author’s wit, sarcasm, and sense of irony. It’s blend of New York and Jewish irony is perfectly crafted.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023 by Ana Tavares
    • Nothin’ but the truth!
as only Nora Ephron can tell it. The recipes alone are worth the read, and it’s my third time through.
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023 by fej1000
    • A Not Very Funny Memoir
It took me about fifty pages into "Heartburn" before I realized that this was a work of fiction, and not a memoir. For all intents and purposes, "Heartburn" really is a memoir about Nora Ephron's vitriolic divorce from the Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein. Nora's changed all the characters' names in order to avoid lawsuits, but everything else seems to be taken from her own real life. Nora Ephron is a good writer, but I didn't think this book was at all funny. The protagonist takes herself too seriously, and the characters themselves all across as spoiled little babies -- which they are of course. For a mother who is about to undergo a divorce, there's very little mention of the internal feelings of her young son -- which reveals just how extremely self-absorbed the writer is. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015 by Jiang Xueqin
    • Forty years later, it‘s still a really good read
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.
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023 by Cynthia

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