Heartburn (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Nora Ephron
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: New York City and Washington, D.C.
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Satire, Roman à clef
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Journalism or journalists, New York City, Marriage, Betrayal, Pregnancy, Feminism, Women’s issues, Washington, D.C., Adultery, Food, Cookery or cooks
- Locales: New York, NY, Washington, D.C.
Characters Discussed
Rachel Samstat, the narrator/protagonist, a thirty-eight-year-old cookbook writer and mother married to Mark Feldman, a syndicated columnist who is having an affair with another woman. Rachel (modeled on Ephron herself) discovers the affair when she is seven months pregnant. She flees to New York City when Mark informs her that he is in love with Thelma Rice. Despite the humiliation, Rachel still loves Mark, a feeling she cannot understand or justify but one she views with comic detachment as she reexamines her two failed marriages, her relationship with...
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See Also:
Nora Ephron (Dictionary of World Biography)Nora Ephron (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Nora Ephron (Sixties in America)
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