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...MARILYN DURHAM 246 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...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...
...standard frontier alien, but Catherine is a refreshing variant of the headstrong heroine. She is a potentially capable woman to whom nothing has happened, so she has nothing to bring to a sudden flood of experience except some mulish preconceptions. Durham leads her through the standard scenes: the learn-your-place tethering by Jay, the strip-or-go-filthy decision, the threat of lascivious Indians. Catherine handles them all incongruously...
Though the narrative is occasionally crude, Author Durham has one important veteran's trait. The reader senses at once that he is in sure hands and trusts her. One feels that, like Margaret Mitchell, she knows absolutely everything about her main character and could tell as many tales as Scheherazade about her. Producer-Director Eleanor Perry, who has bought the book for the movies, has proclaimed it "the first Women's Lib western"-just what the movement needs. The remark is understandable because Catherine is ultimately stronger and less rigid than...
...finished product, which took four months to write, was then marketed according to library sources. When publishers listed in Literary Marketplace failed to respond, Mrs. Durham consulted a directory of agents and got results from New York's Ann Elmo (chosen because the author loves Augusta Evans' venerable tearjerker, St. Elmo). Now that heady success has crowned all these efforts, Mrs. Durham can be found in the periodical room studying her competition in Publishers Weekly and Variety...