Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty seventeen-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms...
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Marjorie Morningstar is a love story. It presents one of the greatest characters in modern fiction: Marjorie, the pretty seventeen-year-old who left the respectability of New York's Central Park West to join the theater, live in the teeming streets of Greenwich Village, and seek love in the arms of a brilliant, enigmatic writer. In this memorable novel, Herman Wouk, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has created a story as universal, as sensitive, and as unmistakably authentic as any ever told.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316955133 (0316955132)
ASIN: 316955132
Publish date: June 15th 1992
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 565
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Jewish,
Coming Of Age,
New York,
World War II
The book started off ok, but it got tiring and rather dull pretty quickly. Lots of very long, boring conversations that didn't feel very realistic, and I lost interest in the characters fairly early on. Perhaps I would have liked it when I was younger, but it just wasn't very interesting to me now...
I tried hard, but I just can't stick it with this one. I guess I just can't read Wouk. I've tried a couple of his others. He knows how to write, but he's too long-winded for me. If you're going to like Marjorie Morningstar, you have to be familiar with (or at least care about) all the 1930s class...
I read this book a very long time ago. Wouk is a tremendous writer. That is why one cannot help but get drawn in by this book.
Perhaps if I had read this when I was younger, I might have loved it. But Wouk has got the misogyny of his time down cold, and Marjorie is less a character than an exhibit of how girls shouldn't behave. Pleh.
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