SPELLBINDER

Robbins, Harold

ISBN 10: 0671416340 / ISBN 13: 9780671416348

Published by Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1984

About this Item

The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- The book is like a backstage pass to corporate-driven TV evangelism, the other major money-making entertainment industry in US. Its ending is exquisite but its biggest strength lies in the details. Robbins did a lot of research on American TV evangelism, and paints here such a realistic picture with such details, that one really wonders: was this, by any chance. . .a true story ?

Seller Inventory # 28104

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SPELLBINDER
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671416340
• ISBN 13: 9780671416348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Preacher C. Andrew Talbot, charismatic evangelical superstar, is chosen by a Texas billionaire to spearhead a new national campaign of religious revivalism, and political transformation, and finds that his faith runs deeper than he thought

About the Author

Harold Robbins (1916–1997) is one of the bestselling American fiction writers of all time, ranking 5th on the World’s Bestselling Fiction Author List just behind William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. He wrote over 25 bestselling novels, sold more than 750 million copies in 42 languages and spent over 300 weeks combined on The New York Times bestsellers list. His books were adapted into 13 commercially successful films and also television series that garnered numerous Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and Primetime Emmy® nominations starring Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, and more. The self-proclaimed “world’s best writer in plain English,” Robbins wrote novels that resonated with audiences due to their graphic depictions of sex, violence, power, and drugs, and the multilayered complexities of his characters, as evidenced by his bestselling novels Never Love a Stranger, The Carpetbaggers, Where Love Has Gone, and The Adventurers. He once said in an interview: “People make their own choices every day about what they are willing to do. We don’t have the right to judge them or label them. At least walk in their shoes before you do.” Robbins’ personal life was as fascinating to the public as his novels. An enthusiastic participant in the social and sexual revolution of the 1960s, Robbins cultivated a “playboy” image and maintained friendships with stars including Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dino De Laurentiis, Robert Evans, Ringo Starr, Barbara Eden, Lena Horne, and Quincy Jones, and was one of the first novelists to be prominently featured in gossip magazines, earning him the title of “The World’s First Rock Star Author.”