Dreams Are Not Enough - Softcover

Briskin, Jacqueline

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ISBN 10: 0425101797 ISBN 13: 9780425101797

Publisher: Berkley, 1987

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Temptress, goddess, and star, Alyssia Del Mar becomes the pawn in the influential movie-making Cordiner family's bid for absolute power

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From Publishers Weekly:

In this latest Briskin rags-to-riches potboiler, Alice Hollister, a migrant crop picker, metamorphoses into Alyssia del Mar, "the ultimate screen love goddess." She marries into the powerful, cruel and inseparable Cordiner family, a Hollywood film dynasty-in-the-making, who snub her and make her the scapegoat for a variety of imaginary ills. The notable exception is cousin Hap, who falls in love with her. Alyssia never loses her down-home earthiness (she'll eventually run a school for farm workers) or her pain and shame over her past (she witnesses her mother bleed to death during an illegal abortion). Briskin's ( Too Much Too Soon, etc.) fluid prose and graphic sex scenes should keep the steamy pages turning, but readers may be frustrated by Alyssia's goody-goodness to the Cordiner clan, who vilify her at every opportunity, and her cloying, masochistic loyalty to her husband, Barry, a traitorous, impotent, alcoholic, unemployed hack writer with a massive inferiority complex. 100,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Alyssia del Mar was a sultry international film star, but she still felt like Alice Hollister, daughter of a dirt-poor unmarried migrant farm worker. Nor did she ever feel a part of the movie studio-connected Cordiner family, which she had married into out of loneliness at 15, or of Our Own Gang, the group of five close-knit Cordiner cousins that included her husband Barry. Alice/Alyssia's story covers a 27-year span and has all the ingredients of best-sellerdom: star-crossed lovers, Hollywood glamour, family ties, Mafia deals, exotic locales, and a happy ending. And, as is her style, Briskin ( Too Much Too Soon ) hooks the reader in the opening pages, making it near-impossible to stop reading. So if characters are sometimes less than well-rounded, dialogue less than dazzling, and style sometimes stiff, still the story is relentless. A bonbon of a book. Literary Guild main selection. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L. , Va.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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