Julie and Julia

My Year of Cooking Dangerously

By Julie Powell (Trade Paperback, 2006)

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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- Format: Trade Paperback
- Price: $14.99 US/$16.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316013260
- On Sale Date: 09/07/2006
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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After spending a long, long time working as a temp, Julie Powell no writes in her pajamas in Long Island City, Queens, where she shares a "loft" apartment with her husband Eric; their dog, Robert; their cats, Maxine, Lumi, and Cooper; and their snake, Zuzu Marlene.

Julie and Julia by Julie Powell

1. HARDCOVER BESTSELLER: JULIE & JULIA hit the New York Times extended list, and was a San Francisco Chronicle, Cincinnati Inquirer, Publishers Weekly, and Book Sense bestseller.

2. TREMENDOUS COVERAGE: Powell appeared on Good Morning America and also cooked Julia Child's famous boeuf bourguignon with Martha Stewart on Martha. The hardcover was a Time "Critic's Choice," a Borders Original Voice pick, and is a finalist for Borders Original Voices Nonfiction Book of the Year.

3. MOVIE RIGHTS: Film rights have been sold to Sony.

4. GREAT, PROMOTABLE PERSONALITY: Julie Powell wowed audiences on her 5-city tour.

5. OUTSTANDING REVIEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE:

Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook and as an eBook.