Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

Nora Ephron

Random House Publishing Group, May 30, 2000 - Social Science - 256 pages

The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now. In this distinctive, engaging, and simply hilarious view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humor to the media, politics, beauty products, and women's bodies. In the famous "A Few Words About Breasts," for example, she tells us: "If I had had them, I would have been a completely different person. I honestly believe that." Ephron brings her sharp pen to bear on the notable women of the time, and to a series of events ranging from Watergate to the Pillsbury Bake-Off. When it first appeared in 1975, Crazy Salad helped to illuminate a new American era--and helped us to laugh at our times and ourselves. This new edition will delight a fresh generation of readers.

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Review: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

User Review  - Jennifer - Goodreads

Crazy Salad is definitely a product of the 1970's. I enjoy Nora Ephron's writing, and it was like reading a small time capsule of the feminist movement at the time.

Review: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women

User Review  - Leila Cohan-Miccio - Goodreads

Somehow, I had never gotten around to reading Nora Ephron's essays. What a treat!!!

About the author

Nora Ephron was a writer for many years at Esquire magazine and New York magazine and is the author of several books, including the novel Heartburn,
which she adapted for the screen. Her other screenwriting credits include When Harry Met Sally . . . and Silkwood, and she has written and directed several movies, including Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women; Humor and Wit Series; Modern Library Humor and Wit
• Author: Nora Ephron
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2000
• ISBN: 0679640355, 9780679640356
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Humor / General; Social Science / Women's Studies