Hollywood Kids - Hardcover

Collins, Jackie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333618807 ISBN 13: 9780333618806

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1994

Synopsis

The idle children of Hollywood legends and moguls are surrounded by money and luxury and searching for love--but a murderer lurks in their midst and a tough New York detective comes to town to change their lives forever. 500,000 first printing. Lit Guild Main. Tour.

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From the Back Cover:

"Hollywood Kids.".. They're hot, they're edgy - young partners in privilege - partying hard for the American dream. Until a murderer begins to stalk them. And tough New York detective Michael Scorsini starts looking for answers.

In a devastating expose of Hollywood and all that goes on there, superstar author Jackie Collins cuts through to the heart of America's favourite playgorund and the new high rollers who live - and die - there.

'This saga of hard bodies in motion delivers the goods... sex, had frequently and dangerously ... by beautiful young Hollywooders who drive fast cars and suffer the burdens of excessive money and fame.' " Publisher's Weekly"

About the Author:

There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins.

The iconic British author has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by Vanity Fair.

With millions of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-one New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. 

From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood move studios; from glittering rock concerts in London to the yachts of Russian billionaires, Jackie Collins chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out.

“I write about real people in disguise,” she once said. “If anything, my characters are toned down—the truth is much more bizarre!”

Her first novel, The World is Full of Married Men, was published in 1968 and established Collins as an author who dared to step where no other female writers had gone before. She followed it year after year with one successful title after another, including Chances, the first installment of a sprawling nine-book saga introducing the street-smart, sexy, and dynamic Lucky Santangelo. The eighties saw Jackie hitting her stride with the seminal blockbuster, Hollywood Wives, as well as Lucky, Hollywood Husbands, and Rock Star. In recent years she kept fans entertained with Poor Little Bitch Girl, The Power Trip, and her final novel, The Santagelos, never wavering on her commitment to take her readers on a “wild ride”!

Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV and Universal Pictures has recently optioned the Santangelo series with a view to bringing Lucky to the big screen.

Jackie was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England in 2013 for her services to literature and charity. When accepting the honor she said to the Queen, “Not bad for a school drop-out”—a revelation capturing her belief that both passion and determination can lead to big dreams coming true. 

Jackie Collins lived in Beverly Hills where she had a front row seat to the lives she so accurately captured in her compulsive plotlines. She was a creative force, a trailblazer for women in fiction and in her own words “A kick-ass writer!”

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0333618807
• ISBN 13: 9780333618806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608