Name: Wallflower at the Orgy
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Author: Nora Ephron
ISBN: 9780553385052

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nora Ephron

Publisher

Random House Lcc Us

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

187

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0553385054

ISBN13

9780553385052

Edition No.

Synopsis "Wallflower at the Orgy "

A bitingly funny, provocative, and revealing look at our foibles, passions, and pasttimes—from one of the most creative minds of our time.“Nora Ephron can write about anything better than anybody else can write about anything.”—The New York TimesFrom her Academy Award–nominated screenplays to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron is one of America’s most gifted, prolific, and versatile writers. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world’s most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex. Whether casting her ingenious eye on renowned director Mike Nichols, Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley Brown—or herself, as she chronicles her own beauty makeover—Ephron deftly weaves her journalistic skill with the intimate style of an essayist and the incomparable talent of a great storyteller.

Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron (New York, 1941-2012) was a writer, producer, screenwriter, and film director. Ephron began her professional career writing for newspapers and magazines. With Crazy Salad (1975) she achieved a resounding critical success, which can be summarized in Patrick Owens' comment: «An absolutely sensational book.» An infidelity by her first husband, Carl Bernstein, one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal plot, inspired her novel Heartburn, which was later adapted into a film of the same name directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Both books have been published by Anagrama. She wrote the screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, and directed films such as Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Hanging Up, Bewitched, and Julie & Julia. Two years before her death, her last book, I Remember Nothing, was translated into Spanish and Catalan in 2022.

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