Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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 the men who try to run her life. But Marilyn Durham is not inspired by headlines. What she is doing is spinning her yarn in the age-old, instantly recognizable...
...movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what dynamite looks like...
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...