" Kirkus Reviews, "By the time Nora Ephron'sI Feel Bad About My Neckcomes out, in August, you'll be feeling the heator maybe just a hot flashin which case her reflections on looking at your saggy, baggy neck in the mirror (she advises squinting). An essay on her love affair and eventual disenchantment with the Apthorp apartment building on Manhattan's West Side deftly captures both the changes in New York City and in her own life. Ephron includes breezy accounts of her culinary misadventures, her search for the perfect cabbage strudel and her dissatisfaction with women's purses. She explores the woes of aging with honestyhair-coloring and Botox are standard treatments, as is getting a mustache waxbut maintaining a 60-plus body is only her starting point. Ephron, whose screenwriting credits includeSleepless in Seattle,When Harry Met SallyandSilkwood, has brought together 15 essays, most of them previously published in theNew York Times, theNew Yorker, or assorted women's/fashion magazines. "A disparate assortment of sharp and funny pieces revealing the private anguishes, quirks and passions of a woman on the brink of senior citizenhood. Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, I Feel Bad About My Neck is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years ("I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton-from a distance, of course. Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that.
Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. , Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, and Bewitched, and the author of best sellers Heartburn, Scribble Scribble, and Crazy Salad, discusses everything-from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. The woman who brought us When Harry Met Sally. With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
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