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FOREVER AMBER-Kafhleen Winsor- Macmillan...
...Kathleen Winsor had always wanted to write something more impressive than the stuff she was paid to write-football stories ("from the woman's point of view") for the Oakland, Calif. Tribune. Not long after her husband, Robert John Herwig, an All-America footballer, brought home a book on King Charles II, she decided to write a novel about the reign of Britain's gamiest monarch...
...nearly two and a half million words, took in a lot of territory; after her husband joined the Marines, Kathleen followed him from camp to camp, lugging her swelling manuscript. Finally, after five years' labor of love, she sent Forever Amber to Macmillan's. To Author Winsor for her first novel Macmillan's sent a staggering advance royalty...
...advance copies. It was a good bet that before the month was out Amber would be boiling its way into the war-bored minds and emotions of millions. And with so much bare flesh involved, dazzled readers were not likely to complain of the fact that Author Winsor never gets around to much deep thought...
...only after 80 pages of more of the same that Author Winsor herself finally tosses in the towel. Many readers will never finish so poor a book; but many more will doubtless help Macmillan...