Description
Description
Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she is offered the job of her dreams working in a summer stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her old-fashioned New York Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theatrical invention, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest - and the most destructive - love of her life.
About the Author
About the Author
Herman Wouk's acclaimed novels include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Caine Mutiny; Marjorie Morningstar; Don't Stop the Carnival; Youngblood Hawke; The Winds of War; War and Remembrance; Inside, Outside; The Hope; The Glory; and A Hole in Texas.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"To me, it's a unicorn of a book--a so-called women's novel, written by a man, that takes its heroine very seriously...A serious book that finds a big, sprawling story in what seems like a small, narrow life."--Laura Lippman, author of The Lady in the Lake
"A proto-feminist classic."--Boris Kachka, Vulture
"Herman Wouk's most solid achievement...a major novel."--Saturday Review
"Definitely in the tradition of the great novel -- spacious, abundantly peopled, shrewd, observant, humane."--New York Herald Tribune
"Its locale is Central Park West, Hunger College, and West End Avenue; its characters almost all Jewish; its appeal universal."--Sidney Field, Sunday Mirror
"Very good reading indeed."--Maxwell Geismar, New York Times
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Back Bay Books
Pub date:
1992-06-15
Length:
592 pages
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