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