Thus, when we read in the opening pages of ''Heartburn'' how Rachel Samstat, the 38-year-old narrator in her seventh month of pregnancy, has just discovered the affair that is going on ''between my husband, a fairly short person, and Thelma Rice, a fairly tall person with a neck as long as an arm and a nose as long as a thumb and you should see her legs, never mind her feet, which are sort of splayed,'' we are almost bound to make associations that correspond with events of true life. So there can't be many among us who aren't at least half-consciously aware of her calamitous romance with the journalist Carl Bernstein. Aside from having written rather personally in her three nonfiction collections, ''Wallflower at the Orgy,'' ''Crazy Salad'' and ''Scribble Scribble,'' Miss Ephron has proved herself to be an effective self-publicizer. TRUE, it's hard at times to avoid reading Nora Ephron's first novel, ''Heartburn,'' as a documentary account of the author's marital misadventures.
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