Author, screenwriter and director Nora Ephron offers a series of humorous essays on what it means to be an aging woman.
Critic Reviews
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Favorable
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Los Angeles Times Susan Salter Reynolds
There's something earnest at the heart of Ephron's writing, always has been, and it's probably the last thing she'd ever want to acknowledge.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Kim Moritsugu
Ephron's friendly, between-us-women tone -- harder to effect than it looks -- draws readers in, but her talent for shaping random, real-life events into well-constructed stories is what makes her writing satisfy.
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Favorable
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Publishers Weekly Toni Bentley
Ephron's witty riffs on these distractions are a delightful antidote to the prevailing belief that everything can be held up with surgical scaffolding and the drugs of denial. [5 June 2006, p.46]
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Favorable
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Kirkus Reviews
One doesn't need to be a post-menopausal New Yorker with a liberal outlook and comfortable income to enjoy Ephron's take on life, but those who fit the profile will surely relish it most. [15 May 2006, p.504]
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Favorable
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
Some things don’t change. It’s good to know that Ms. Ephron’s wry, knowing X-ray vision is one of them.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review Liesl Schillinger
This current gatherum of hard and funny truths spares neither the author’s pride nor her audience’s, but it does salve wounds, and many of Ephron’s insights are bound to come in handy.
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Favorable
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Christian Science Monitor April Austin
It is clever enough to qualify as more than just an assemblage of one-liners. Whether you agree with her observations or not, Ephron's perspective as an admittedly high-maintenance, New York-dwelling, successful screenwriter will keep you entertained.
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Favorable
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The Guardian Lionel Shriver
Sweetly packaged in an undersized format, this admittedly slight collection - much of which has been published previously in magazines - imparts a few nuggets of wisdom that you can take to the bank.
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Mixed
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Washington Post Bunny Crumpacker
A kind of retrospective -- wry and amusing, as you'd expect, but also a bit strained and sad. It's a condensation of a life graced with privilege, which can make empathizing with Ephron a bit difficult.
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Mixed
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New York Observer Anna Shapiro
Whether fiction or non-, however, her wonderful, entertaining narratives lose the kick of seriousness when the subject is your pal Nora Ephron, but I suspect it doesn’t have to be that way—if she lives and writes long enough.
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