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A Wonderful Novel About Friendship and Love | The World of Henry Orient | Nora Johnson

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	• The World of Henry Orient Nora Johnson Rosettabooks LLC, 2002 average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Purley Charming Tale

The World of Henry Orient is an amazing stories, and what suprised me most after reading it was that the girls were actualy like preteen girls, they're emotions were dead on, their thought processes and the way marion handled val was exactly like a concerned girl would do. This is a charming tale about two girls learning what its like to grow up and i recomend it to anyone who's willing to experience that. This book incorporates charm, humor and even heartwrenching pain to make a great read.

Love This Book

The World of Henry Orient is one of the best books I have ever read. Val and Marian, two misfits living in New York City, form a truly touching friendship with each other. The story is well written, and I like the characters, especially Boothy. I can relate well to the whole book, and I think it is wonderful. Preteens, teens, and adults alike will find it an amazing book, one that they will never forget. I reccommend it to all.

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A Wonderful Novel About Friendship and Love

This book is one of the most intriguing romance novels I have ever read. It is about two girls who become the best of friends, and roam through the crowded city of New York, trying to escape the hostility of a normal life. In this process, the two friends become enveloped in a life of their own, in which they discover an unexceptional concert pianist named Henry Orient. The two girls find something mischievous to do practically every day of their lives, until it all comes down to the escapade of meeting their true love.
In this charming tale, two girls named Val and Marian find each other after school one day. They both go to a private, Upper East Side girls' school called Norton (Brearley). They get to know each other better and better until they become best friends (even though they are the only friends each other have).
Val's parents are always traveling for business, so Val lives with a couple who never had any children. They enjoy Val's presence. Marian lives with her divorced mother and Boothy, her mother's friend. The two women love Val and Marian and are there as great sources of advice every step of the two girls' lives.
As the story progresses, Val and Marian find Henry Orient, who they both become interested in. Val especially loves him. They find everything they can about this pianist until it all comes down to one ghastly night, in which the girls' hopes are broken, their less-than-average teenage lives are torn, and Val's mother finds a terrible way to separate the two friends forever.
I highly recommend this book because it is funny, mysterious, and thrilling. If you read this book, you are bound to have your own wonderful adventures about growing up, love, and the delicate pleasure of friendship.

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A Haunting Story

I first read this book about forty years ago when I was a teenage girl and I never forgot it. Nora Johnson (who I later discovered was the daughter of famed screenwriter Nunnally Johnson) really knew how to get into the heads of teenage girls, what it was like to be a misfit, discovering the magic and the perfidy of the outside world for the first time and finding, and losing, a magical best friend.

The movie was great and it had some cast including Peter Sellers and Angela Lansbury although it wasn't as good as the book IMO.

Most of the adults appear to be more clueless than the kids and certainly more destructive although there are some shining exceptions like Marion's mother. We see the world through Marion's eyes and Johnson does a fine job of making it all real for us.

The backdrop of the story is New York City, almost like another major character. The city is magical and full of surprises, but can be devastating as well.

There are a lot of little inspired moments in the book. The girls really turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. At the time, I remember wishing I had friends like this or that I was like this myself even though the book doesn't have a "happily ever after" type ending.

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Gil and Val Take Manhattan! back in print after many years

Nora Johnson's The World of Henry Orient, first published in 1958 and now happily back in print, is a warm and amusing look at the lives of two New York girls, Marian "Gil" Gilbert and Valerie "Val" Boyd. Their escapades transport them from being dull schoolgirls in uniforms to young adults taking control of Manhattan (or trying to).

Val and Gil become friends at an age when conforming is all important, and they are outside the magic circle until they find each other. They are just old enough to have some independence, to play at being grownups, with the city as their playground. At a Carnegie Hall concert, they see a pianist named Henry Orient, and they become fascinated with him. Henry Orient becomes the focus of their lives. They follow him around Manhattan, observing his routine, his "world," unaware at first that they are observing the pianist bound up in a snarl of romantic liaisons.

Val and Gil learn a lot about themselves in the course of their adventures, discovering a world that offers them much more than the activities of Henry Orient.

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