Shadow Of The Dolls: A Novel
by Rae Lawrence
Our Price: $17.99
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $0.01 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Rae LawrenceEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-01
ISBN: 0758202725
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Kensington
Summary of Shadow Of The Dolls: A Novel
Valley of the Dolls was sexy, shocking, and unrelenting in its revelations of the dangers facing women who dare to chase their most glamorous dreams. It shot to the top of the bestseller lists in 1966 and made Jacqueline Susann a superstar. It remains the quintessential big, blockbuster, must-read, can't-put-down bestseller.Before her death in 1974, Susann spent many months working on a draft for a sequel that continued the stories of Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara, and Lyon Burke. Now, after nearly thirty years, the perfect writer has been found to turn Susann's deliciously ambitious ideas into a novel that matches the original shock for shock and thrill for thrill.
In Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls, Rae Lawrence ? herself a bestselling author ? picks up the story in the late '80s and brings it right into the new century. Long a devoted ?Valley? girl herself, Rae has re-imagined the original characters in a contemporary reality (and adjusted their ages just a bit), exactly as Jackie would have wanted her to. And if you've never read Valley of the Dolls, no matter. Sometimes the present is even more surprising and fun when you don't remember the past.
And what a story! Neely's golden voice has brought her fame and success, but now she craves acceptance in social circles where her kind of celebrity means nothing at all. Anne, born and bred in those very circles, must choose between returning home or pursuing a fabulous television career ? and the kind of passion she once knew with Lyon. And Lyon, who loses everything including Anne, looks for happiness in the most unexpected of places.
Taking us behind the closed doors of New York, East Hampton, and Los Angeles, whetting our appetites for more with a new generation of young women and men who grow up far too fast, and spicing the whole story with a generous sprinkling of sex, drugs, and cosmetic surgery, Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls is the ultimate beach read for our time. But feel free to devour it any time of the year, wherever you are.
It's been a long time since readers had this much fun between the covers. It's time to jump back in.
Anne Welles . . . She finds the courage to leave the only man who ever made her feel like a woman . . . She fights her way to the top of a television career that is even more cutthroat than she's been warned . . . She finds security and contentment with the kind of man she was destined to marry . . . Now she must choose between destiny and her dreams.
Neely O'Hara . . . Her talents take her to the top, while her troubles drag her through rehab after rehab . . . She grasps at the things Anne has turned her back on (her class, her man) . . . She always knows exactly what she wants, and will do whatever it takes to make her dreams come true.
Lyon Burke . . . He takes lovers over love . . . He hustles other people's
talent while neglecting his own . . . He always knows how to look, which restaurants offer the perfect drink and the most cachet, who to pursue, and where to find the best percentage . . . He waits so long to realize his dreams that in the end it may be too late.
Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was one of the sexiest, most shocking, and most sensational novels ever to fly off the shelves. Now, thanks to bestselling novelist Rae Lawrence ? working from Susann's own draft for a sequel ? the fun has just begun.
Women's Fiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Women's Fiction Books
101 ways to stop being bored! (Malcolm in the middle)by Malcolm
Scholastic; Published: 2003; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Herman Had Two Daughtersby Zelda Popkin
Lippincott; Published: 1968-06; Textbook Binding; Book
Bumps in the Nightby Harry Allard, James Marshall
Doubleday; Published: 1979-09; Library Binding; Book
Price in other shops:
Bumps in the Nightby Harry Allard, James Marshall
Doubleday; Published: 1979-09; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Jamby Margaret Mahy
Little Brown & Co (Juv); Published: 1986-03; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
The Hateful Plateful Trick.by Scott Corbett
Little Brown & Co (Juv); Published: 1972-06; Library Binding; Book
Price in other shops:
Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-a-zooby Mercer Mayer
Goldencraft; Published: 1976-09; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Letty Fox: Her luck (A & R classics)by Christina Stead
Angus and Robertson; Published: 1974; Unknown Binding; Book
Delta WeddingHarcourt; Published: 1979-03; Hardcover; Book
Mrs Coverlet's Magiciansby Mary Nash
Little Brown & Company; Published: 2000-01; Hardcover; Book
Similar Books and other products
Peyton Place (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)by Grace Metalious
Northeastern; Published: 1999-03-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.69
Price in other shops:
Girl, Interruptedby Susanna Kaysen
Vintage; Published: 1994-04-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops:
DOLORES (HARDCOVER) ~ BY JACQUELINE SUSANNby Jacqueline Susann
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY; Published: 1976; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.45
Valley of the Dolls (Special Edition)Fox; Release date: 2006-06-13; DVD
Best price: $7.19
Price in other shops:
Doloresby Jacqueline Susann
Bantam Books (Mm); Published: 1983-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $30.00
Once Is Not Enough (Jacqueline Susann)by Jacqueline Susann
Grove Press; Published: 1997-12-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.94
Price in other shops:
Valley of the Dollsby Jacqueline Susann
Grove Press; Published: 1997-09-22; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.75
Price in other shops:
The Love Machine (Jacqueline Susann)by Jacqueline Susann
Grove Press; Published: 1997-12-14; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.35
Price in other shops: