Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations - Brossura

Ephron, Nora

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ISBN 10: 1612195245 ISBN 13: 9781612195247

Casa editrice: Melville House, 2015

Riassunto

For fans of When Harry Met Sally and readers of I Feel Bad About My Neck (which is to say, almost everyone!) comes an indispensible collection of wit and wisdom from the late, great Nora Ephron

A hilarious and revealing look at one of America's most beloved screenwriters. From the beginning of her career as a young journalist to her final interview—a warm, wise, heartbreaking reflection originally published in the Believer—this is a sparkling look at the life and work of a great talent.

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Recensione:

'One of our beloved wise women.' - Emerald Street

'Melville House's Last Interview series is an inspired addition to their catalogue... Cleverly chosen in order to illustrate the trajectory of what was [Ephron's] gloriously piecemeal and progressive career' - The Independent

'Sometimes I ask myself: what would Nora Ephron do? (I'm a fully paid-up fangirl, I admit.)... A little bit of Nora is here to crack open a bottle of red, pull up a chair at your kitchen table and dispense a little bit of wisdom about what really matters in 2016.' --The Pool

'I read this entire book in one sitting (in the bath, in fact). It gives an incredible insight into the way Nora used to work." --Emma Gannon Girl Lost in the City

'Ephron speaks with native directness, candour and wit about the challenges of forging a career in traditionally male-dominated milieus, alongside childhood, ageing and the best way to cook a turkey.' --The Guardian

L'autore:

NORA EPHRON was born in Manhattan in 1941 and grew up in Beverly Hills. Her parents were Broadway playwrights, who would base the play Take Her, She’s Mine on letters she sent home from Wellesley College. After graduation, Ephron became a journalist, writing for the New York Post, New York magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire, where her 1972 piece “A Few Words About Breasts” made her a household name as an essayist. Her marriage to and subsequent divorce from Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein inspired her first novel, Heartburn, which was published in 1983 and later became a movie starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing for the films Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle, and her essay collection I Feel Bad About My Neck was a number-one New York Times bestseller. She died in New York City in 2012, at the age of seventy-one.

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• Editore: Melville House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1612195245
• ISBN 13: 9781612195247
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96