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...FOREVER AMBER-Kafhleen Winsor- Macmillan...
...complete drafts for a total of nearly two and a half million words, took in a lot of territory; after her husband joined the Marines, Kathleen followed him from camp to camp, lugging her swelling manuscript. Finally, after five years' labor of love, she sent Forever Amber to Macmillan's. To Author Winsor for her first novel Macmillan's sent a staggering advance royalty...
...sheer voluptuousness, the book's heroine, honey-haired Courtesan Amber St. Clare makes Scarlett O'Hara look like a schoolmarm-a fact that could scarcely escape Hollywood's attention any more than Macmillan's. On the plausible assumption that Forever Amber might be its biggest smash hit since Gone With the Wind, the shrewd house of Macmillan spent a small fortune ($20,000) on advance publicity, and were set to saturate the nation's bookshops with 225,000 advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...
...without being arrogant, closemouthed, not because he wanted to conceal the truth from Victoria, but because it never occurred to him that she would want to know the plantation's hard life. He had married her two weeks after he met her. When he looked at her his amber-colored eyes warmed at the sight of her silvery beauty. When he saw her amazement at the museumlike rooms, where the antique chairs were like small islands on the ocean of faded carpet, his eyes danced with amusement. When he heard her give her first order to the maids-breakfast...