# Marjorie Morningstar

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- Authors: [Herman Wouk](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-wouk)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-05-09

## Description

" I read it and I thought, 'Oh, God, this is me.'" - Scarlet Johansson Now hailed as a " proto-feminist classic" (Vulture), Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk's powerful coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City has been a perennial favourite since it was first a bestseller in the 1950s. Sixteen-year-old Marjorie Morgenstern lives a quiet life in New York City. Her mother hopes for a glittering marriage to a good man, but Marjorie has other ideas. When she falls desperately in love with Noel Airman, a musician as reckless as he is talented, Marjorie dreams of defying her destiny as a wife and mother to become a star of the stage. Why should she settle with being just another Mrs Morgenstern if she can succeed as Marjorie Morningstar? Rich with humour and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. " A proto-feminist classic." - Boris Kachka, Vulture " 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 " Very good reading indeed." - Maxwell Geismar, New York Times

## Editions

### Marjorie Morningstar

- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4477-700-0
- Published: 2013-05-09
- Language: en_GB

### Marjorie Morningstar

- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-14-4477-803-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-05-09
- Language: en_GB