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Amrita Chakravarty is a Hindu Marjorie Morningstar. She has a job with a touch of glamour-announcer on a New Delhi radio station. She is up to her coiled black coiffure in a venture even more advanced and emancipated than a radio career, i.e., picking her own boy friend and would-be husband. The man she thinks she loves is Hari Sahni, a fellow announcer with a neat little Clark Gable mustache. But Mama Chakravarty, like Mama Morgenstern, has no intention of letting her daughter marry a no-good. A widow, she marches Amrita straight off to stern old grandpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Marjorie | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...gravy was trickling down to the bookstores. The book clubs were booming, Hollywood was paying fancy prices for books again ($300,000 for Robert Ruark's Something of Value, $250,000 for MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville, a $1,000,000 deal for Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar). High-priced, quality paperbacks were having the year of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Dec. 26, 1955 | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk, again, as in The Caine Mutiny, put its author on the side of unfashionable literary virtues-this time, character and middle-class morality. Told as a love story about a stage-struck New York girl, Marjorie quickly became the nation's favorite novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FICTION | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...fortunate indeed who delves no more deeply into Marjorie Morningstar than a reading of its able review. Not since Bernard DeVoto's The Year of Decision: 1846 has so much been said, by so few, about so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...beneath the surface of his stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment in Marjorie Morningstar-of Noel Airman, the restless Bohemian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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