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...Gilded Ghetto." When Margie is not coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly...
Author Wouk builds up real suspense about the question of whom Marjorie will finally marry-a reformed Noel, a romantic Eden, a successful Wally, or plain Dr. Shapiro. The last chapter finds her a contented matron of Mamaroneck, who in her memory has revamped the past to suit the present. As she gets a little high and waltzes alone to the strains of Falling in Love with Love, she seems for a moment like the dream girl of old. But the moment passes. An old beau who is visiting her decides: "You couldn't write a play about...
...SIXTH OF JUNE (351 pp.).-Lionel Shapiro-Doubleday...
...invalided British brigadier, fully Jane's social opposite number and twice as good-looking. They fall immediately and desperately in love, and exchange guilty confidences about his wife and her friend Wynter, a commando officer in North Africa. But despite prolonged emotional twitching and teasing, Author Shapiro keeps his lovers' mental fig leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government-issue characters from the standard stockpile of all war novels. There is the hero's uncouth...
Except for its loving re-creation of England in wartime and an explosive 20-page finale of beachhead action (Canadian-born Author Shapiro himself covered Sicily, Salerno and Normandy as a war correspondent), there is less reason for The Sixth of June to be remembered than remaindered. The fact that it is the Book-of-the-Month Club choice for August may make it an automatic bestseller, but it will strike many readers as 31 days' praise too many...