Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOVED CAT DANCING...
...said of First Novelist Marilyn Durham that she has the courage of her daydreams. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing is basically pure feminine fantasy, but the treatment is so fresh and untroubled that the book is one of the most effective entertainments of recent months...
...many, she decides to flag a train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking to buy back his children from the Shoshone who adopted them...
...Cat Dancing is a modest tribute to the art of storytelling, it is a genuflection before the institution of the free library. When the author, a 42-year-old Evansville Ind., housewife, decided to write a novel, her first order of business was to figure out what kind would least display her ignorance. She had no degree, had never held a decent job, traveled, flown in an airplane, or so much as taken a vacation. But she was a magpie reader especially of fiction and history and she knew her way around a library. To wit: the setting of Cat...
Perhaps because she is so methodical, Marilyn Durham seems rather beguilingly unaware of her book's freshness. She likes to call it a western gothic and says that the squaw Cat Dancing is "an Indian Rebecca - there to give the hero a Past." She loves reading trash, has never met an Augusta Evans fan who didn't become a soulmate...