Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and
personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend
in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their
decades-long friendship.
Nora Ephron (1941-2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist,
essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie
director (Sleepless in Seattle; You've Got Mail; When Harry Met
Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers
(I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman; I
Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections; Scribble, Scribble: Notes on
the Media; Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women). She was celebrated
by Hollywood, embraced by literary New York, and adored by legions of
fans throughout the world.
Award-winning journalist Richard Cohen, wrote this about his
"third-person memoir" "I call this book a third-person memoir. It is
about my closest friend, Nora Ephron, and the lives we lived together
and how her life got to be bigger until, finally, she wrote her last
work, the play, Lucky Guy, about a newspaper columnist dying of cancer
while she herself was dying of cancer. I have interviewed many of her
other friends--Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep,
Arianna Huffington--but the book is not a name-dropping star turn, but
an attempt to capture a remarkable woman who meant so much to so many
other women."
