Valley Of The Dolls (VMC) - Softcover

Susann, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860498876 ISBN 13: 9781860498879

Publisher: Virago, 2003

Synopsis

The exploits and excesses of three pill-popping showbiz heroines: Anne, the smalltown girl supposedly modelled on Grace Kelly, who captivates a millionaire but falls for an English cad; Jennifer, the beautiful Marilyn Monroe clone who possesses everything - except immortality; and Neely, the ruthless Judy Garlandesque understudy-turned-superstar. As friends - and enemies - they learn the hard way that fame, fortune, beauty and stardom don't always equal happiness.

Jacqueline Susann's sensational novel staked her claim as a pop pioneer, perfectly crystallized the decadence of the 1960s - and ushered in a whole new genre of mass-market fiction.

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Review:

The kind of book most of its readers could not put down. I, for one, could not . . . For me reading Valley of the Dolls was like reading a very, very long, absolutely delicious gossip column . . . Magnetic (Nora Ephron)

Valley Of The Dolls remains a brave, bold, angry and, yes, definitely a feminist book. All that, and still about the most fun you can have without a prescription (Julie Burchill Guardian)

Jackie, it seemed, understood by instinct that her readers were ready for the raw side of love . . . for a franker sexuality and a tougher kind of story-for romance with tears and oral sex (Michael Korda The New Yorker)

Valley of the Dolls remains a pop-culture touchstone: a gleefully salacious story of friendship, sex, backstabbing and pills . . . Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the tawdry tale of Anne Welles, Jennifer North and Neely O'Hara hasn't lost its punch . . . One of the most talked-about books of all time (New York Times)

50 years later, it's still spot on. The world's changed immensely but the climb to the top is still a tough one (Michael Kors)

Much imitated, but never bettered (Daily Telegraph)

About the most fun you can have without a prescription! (Julie Burchill)

Decades ahead of its time...Mesmerizing...The equation of emotional dependencies with drug addiction in one comprehensive personality disorder is, if anything, MORE CHIC TODAY. (VILLAGE VOICE)

Jackie, it seemed, understood by instinct that her readers were ready for the RAW SIDE OF LOVE...for a franker sexuality and a tougher kind of story - for romance with tears AND oral sex. (Michael Korda, THE NEW YORKER)

Book Description:

* The ground-breaking pop-culture classic and one of the most famous bestsellers of all time!

About this edition

• Publisher: Virago
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1860498876
• ISBN 13: 9781860498879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480