Valley of the Dolls - Hardcover

Susann, Jacqueline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0937858021 ISBN 13: 9780937858028

Publisher: Newmarket Pr, 1981

Synopsis

Three women seek escape as they learn about the bitterness, corruption, and falsehoods of the show-business world

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Review:

Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times.

About the Author:

Jacqueline Susann left her hometown of Philadelphia at eighteen and moved to New York where she acted extensively and won the Best Dressed Woman in Television award four times. But it was the success of her three blockbuster novels- Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough-that transformed her into the Pucci-clad media superstar we remember today. Jacqueline Susann was married to producer Irving Mansfield. She died in 1974.

About this edition

• Publisher: Newmarket Pr
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0937858021
• ISBN 13: 9780937858028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 442