If anyone in America could turn the story of a collapsing marriage into highest- level comedy, it's Nora Ephron.
And Mark insists he's not just sleeping with Thelma, he's in love! (The final humiliation: "The man had broken my heart and had then gone out and bought himself a new blazer!")įrom the moment when Rachel discovers the worst, to the moment, six weeks later, when she wraps it all up with a final joke, she's suffering heartburn-terminal heartburn. and, alas, Thelma Rice has been on it with him. What a mess! Rachel's out of analysis, out of group (though her ex-group continues on its unmerry way), and she's just found out that for the past seven months-while she's been pregnant with little Nathaniel (It's a boy! says the amniocentesis test)- Mark has been on the couch too. Mark Feldman, has been having an affair with Thelma Rice (a too-tall woman. (It's breaking up in New York, it's breaking up in Washington, and, of course, it's breaking up on the Eastern Shuttle.) Published in 1983, Nora Ephrons Heartburn tells the story of Rachel Samstat. It's the story of Rachel (cookbook writer) Samstat and Mark (syndicated columnist) Feldman, whose happy marriage-well, Rachel always assumed it was happy-is breaking up.
The author of Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble now gives us a novel (her first) as wickedly funny and pointy as her brilliant journalism. In the movie Silkwood, which was also written by Nora Ephron, also directed by Mike Nichols, and also had Meryl Streep in the leading role, there is a character.
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