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Heartburn: VMC 40th Anniversary Edition de Nora Ephron

Heartburn: VMC 40th Anniversary Edition: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Nora Ephron Introducere de Delia Ephron
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mai 2018

În New York-ul anilor '80, unde viața socială se intersectează constant cu ambițiile profesionale, Rachel Samstat se confruntă cu o realitate brutală: este însărcinată în șapte luni, iar soțul ei este îndrăgostit de o altă femeie. Această alegere a momentului nu este întâmplătoare; vulnerabilitatea fizică a maternității amplifică trădarea, transformând spațiul domestic dintr-un refugiu într-un câmp de luptă emoțional. Observăm cum Nora Ephron refuză autocompătimirea, alegând în schimb să disece eșecul conjugal printr-o lentilă de un umor tăios, aproape chirurgical.

Elementul distinctiv al cărții este structura sa hibridă: între capitolele în care Rachel pendulează între dorința de a-și recupera soțul și fantezii de răzbunare, ea ne oferă rețete culinare. Pentru protagonistă, mâncarea nu este doar subiect de scris, ci un limbaj al controlului într-o lume care s-a prăbușit. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Chick Flick, de Deryn Warren, unde trauma personală este filtrată prin prisma unei cariere creative, deși stilul lui Ephron marchează o voce proprie, mult mai ancorată în eseistică și observație socială acută.

Poziționăm Heartburn ca piatra de temelie a operei sale beletristice, făcând puntea între jurnalismul său acid și scenariile celebre care au redefinit comedia romantică, precum When Harry Met Sally. . .. Dacă în I Feel Bad About My Neck sau I Remember Nothing autoarea explorează declinul fizic și memoria cu o melancolie jucăușă, aici ea capturează furia pură a trădării, transformând-o în literatură confesională de cea mai înaltă clasă. Este un exercițiu de supraviețuire prin cuvinte, demonstrând că orice durere poate deveni, în cele din urmă, o poveste amuzantă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349010359
ISBN-10: 0349010358
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 126 x 194 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seria Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricui a înțeles că umorul este singura armă eficientă împotriva dezastrului personal. Cititorul câștigă nu doar o perspectivă onestă și nesentimentală asupra divorțului, ci și o colecție de rețete care funcționează ca balsam sufletesc. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care apreciază proza inteligentă, în care râsul și plânsul ocupă același spațiu, oferind o lecție magistrală despre cum să transformi umilința în putere narativă.

Despre autor

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) a fost o figură emblematică a culturii americane, excelând ca jurnalistă, romancieră și regizoare. Nominalizată de trei ori la Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun scenariu original (pentru filme precum Silkwood sau Sleepless in Seattle), ea a reușit să impună un stil inconfundabil, definit prin onestitate brutală și spirit ludic. Cariera sa a fost marcată de capacitatea de a transforma experiențele personale, adesea dureroase, în succese internaționale, Heartburn rămânând singurul său roman, o lucrare autobiografică ce i-a consolidat statutul de observator fin al relațiilor umane moderne.

Descriere

'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' Nigella Lawson 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!Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Recenzii

So rich, so brilliant, and so crammed with nuggets of glorious womanly wisdom
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
Simply one of the greatest novels involving food ever written from the writer of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. It's about love, sex, adultery and key lime pie
This book taught me about love, loss and writing. It's a timeless classic
Jumps off the page
'Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more)' India Knight

'Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel. There is not a wrong word - about food, marriage, life, love, loss - and all rings true and makes you laugh. Who could ask for anything more?' Nigella Lawson

'Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything' New York Times

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere scurtă

'Heartburn is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking and as brittle (very) as it is steely (even more)' India Knight

'Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel. There is not a wrong word - about food, marriage, life, love, loss - and all rings true and makes you laugh. Who could ask for anything more?' Nigella Lawson

'Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything' New York Times

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle 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 sinfully delicious novel, as soul-satisfying as mashed potatoes and as airy as a perfect souffle.