The Most of Nora Ephron
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038535083X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The book's most delicious offering is Ephron's magazine journalism from the 1970s, with razor-sharp profiles of figures such as Helen Gurley Brown, Dorothy Schiff, and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, and keenly intelligent reportage on subjects that include the 1971 National Women's Political Caucus and the 1973 Pillsbury Bake-off competition. (Nov.) . This collection fulfills that motto with aplomb, and will likely serve as a perfect holiday gift for Ephron fans. Ephron's last work, Lucky Guy, a play about the career of New York tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, is published here for the first time. Agent: Amanda Urban, ICM. From Ephron's days as a reporter at Newsweek in the 1960s to blogging for the Huffington Post in the 2000s, the book
Readers who like their humor heavily seasoned with sarcasm will love this book Her friend, the editor Robert Gottlieb, says it well in his introduction: Nora Ephron, who died last year at age 71, was “a reporter, a profilist, a polemicist, a novelist, a screenwriter, a playwright, a memoirist, and a (wicked) blogger.” She was also a good cook, apparently, and the writer-director of some of the more charming romantic comedies of the past 20 years. The nice thing about boo. A Nora Ephron Collection to Keep Close at Hand I have been a long time Nora Ephron fan, having read several of her shorter works, read screenplays and watched movies and this compilation of Ephron's work is a way to immerse myself in her brilliant, biting, insightful, sharp witted and intelligent writing. I enjoyed work I hadn't read before and revelled in re-reading favorites. She was such a creative and wide ranging talent- this collection is a trea. "A must read" according to Amazon Customer. Love her work and miss the fact that we have lost a great, fun and poignant writer!
A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America’s funniest—and most acute—writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we’ve been living it these last forty years. Her superb writing, her unforgettable movies, her honesty and fearlessness, her nonpareil humor have made Nora Ephron an icon for America’s women—and not a few of its men.. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here—from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on b