Love & Desire & Hate - Hardcover

Collins, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671665804 ISBN 13: 9780671665807

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1991

Synopsis

Years after World War II, two women and a man--who had been the victims of the sadistic cruelty, perverted lust, and greed of an Italian general--unexpectedly come face to face with their tormenter while on location filming a movie

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Collins has appeared in more than 55 films, 25 TV shows and countless plays in Hollywood, the West End and on Broadway. She is the author of several bestselling novels and lifestyle books, including Joan's Way (1861056648), Prime Time (1861057164) and Star Quality (1861054947). She lives in London and New York.

From Publishers Weekly:

This crisp, savvy romance by actress and novelist Collins ( Prime Time ) assembles a vivid array of international stage and film personalities in Acapulco in 1955, where one of them is murdered on a movie location. Tracing the lives of each, Collins returns to Paris in 1943 where Ines Dessault, age 14, plies her hooker's trade in order to survive in occupied France. Brutalized by a client, let's not give away Joan's inimitable style!/mc fascist Italian general Umberto Scrofo, she stabs him with his razor, leaving him for dead. Ines flees to England, educating and upgrading herself to "courtesan." Scrofo recovers, kills a woman in Greece and earns the sworn hatred of Nikolas Stanopolis--future film director Nicholas Stone. Meanwhile Ines and Julian ("Looks") Brooks, top British box office star, fall in love. Ines worries about her secret past and contends with rivals--Julian's blowsy wife Phoebe and precocious teenage dancer Dominique, whose eerie, sexually frustrated duenna Agathe also pines for Julian. With all the principal players gathered in Mexico, the plot takes many an engaging turn, especially when the vile Scrofo surfaces as a moneyed producer. Collins dishes up a tasty read, pleasingly seasoned with tattle and memorabilia of stage and screen.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671665804
• ISBN 13: 9780671665807
• Binding: Hardcover