Fictional liberties have been taken with place names, weather,eclipses, steamship schedules, dates, and so forth. All the characters of the novel, with their names and traits, are complete fictional inventions.Unintentional duplication of actual names, traits, or physical descriptions, is coincidental.

In 1930 sixteen-year-oLd Marjorie Morgenstern Lives with her family on the edge of Central Park. She has just come out into New York society. Her mother hopes for a glittering marriage to a good man, but Marjorie has other ideas.Spending the summer working as a drama coach, she falls desperately in Love twice over: with Noel Airman, a musician, as reckless as he is talented; and with a dream of defying her destiny as a Jewish wife and mother and becoming a famous actress. Why should she settle for a Life as another Mrs Morgenstern, if she can succeed in the heady world of show business as Iqarjorie Morningstar?

PART 1 MARJORIE

Chapter 1 Marjorie

Chapter 2 Prince Charming

Chapter 3 George

PART 2 MARSHA

Chapter 4 Sandy and Marjorie

Chapter 5 Sandy's Ambitions

Chapter 6 Marsha Zelenko

Chapter 7 An Evening at the Zelenkos

Chapter 8 The LIncle

Chapter 9 The Bar-Mitzva

Chapter 10 Mr. Klabber

Chapter 11 NoelAirman

PAST 3 SODOM

Chapter 12 Wally Wronken

Chapter 13 A Kiss under the Lilacs

Chapter 14 Marjorie at South Wind

Chapter 15 Shirley

Chapter 16 The Red Glasses

Chapter 17 The Rowboat

Chapter 18 The Toreador

Chapter 19 The South Wind Waltz

Chapter 20 No Dishes to Vash

PART 4 NOEL

Chapter 22 Return of Marsha

Chapter 22 Guy Flamrn

Chapter 23 The New Noel

Chapter 24 The Engagement Party

Chapter 25 Muriel

Chapter 26 Sam Rothmore

Chapter 27 The Seder

Chapter 28 Imogene

Chapter 29 Brief Career of an Evangelist

Chapter 30 Noel's Theory

Chapter 31 Dr. Shapiro

Chapter 32 Dinner at the Waldorf

Chapter 33 Princess Jones Is Produced

Chapter 34 Marsha's Farewell Speech

Chapter 35 The Breaking of a Glass

Chapter 36 Another Glass Breaks

PART 5 MY OBJECT ALL SUBLIME

Chapter 37 The Nightmare

Chapter 38 How to Discard a Mistress Gracefully

Chapter 39 The Bad Year

Chapter 40 A First-Class Ticket to Europe

Chapter 41 The Man on the Boat Deck

Chapter 42 A Game of Ping-Pong

Chapter 43 The Premonition

Chapter 44 In Pursuit of Noel

Chapter 45 Noel Found

Chapter 46 The South Wind Waltz: Reprise

Chapter 47 The Man She Married

Chapter 48 Wally Wronken's Diary