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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...