Beschreibung

Now in paperback-the format in which it's destined to become a reading group favorite-the most heralded and hilarious memoir of recent years:
Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive journey - life rediscovered through aspics, calves' brains and crème brûlée.
The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) is now a major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia, the film Julie & Julia will be released by Sony Pictures on August 7, 2009.

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Julie Powell

Nach einer langen Zeit als Zeitarbeitskraft ist Julie Powell nun glückliche Schriftstellerin. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann Eric, ihrem Hund Robert, ihren Katzen Maxine, Lumi und Cooper sowie ihrer Schlange Zuzu Marlene in ihrem "Loft"-Apartment in Queens.