booksconleche's review against another edition
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hannaplanell's review against another edition
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sillyzilly's review
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Let's be real: I was in this for the essays she wrote later in life, and they were the part I enjoyed the most. However! Heartburn--her novel, a BARELY-fictionalized version of her divorce from Carl Bernstein--was also excellent, and now I intend to hunt down the Meryl Streep/Jack Nicholson movie. And Lucky Guy, her play about an ambitious New York journalist, was pretty good, too. And her 1970s essays on feminism were fascinating in a time-capsule kind of way. All this to say: I could probably have cobbled some good Nora reading together from an assortment of her books of essays, but I'm glad I branched out and read more widely in her body of work. One warning: the New York-1960s journalism essays are maybe only interesting if you were a journalist in the 1960s in New York. Ah, well.
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elena171's review against another edition
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