Best Selling Books by Jacqueline Susann

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann''s All-Time Pop-Culture Classic At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there s no place left to go but down, into the "Valley of the Dolls." "

The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann''s All-Time Pop-Culture Classic! At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there’s no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls.

The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other “baby” and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it “the love machine.” But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, “the love machine” meant something else: Robin Stone, “a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths…The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens.”—Newsweek “I READ IT IN ONE GREEDY GULP, ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE.”—Liz Smith “[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours.”—Detour

Following its new edition of Jackie Susann''s "Valley of the Dolls", Grove Press is proud to reissue a classic novel in the author''s pantheon of pop-culture mythologies. "Once Is Not Enough" recounts the colorful life of luscious January Wayne who "can''t make it with a guy because she has a thing for her glamorous celebrity dad, Mike" ("Library Journal").

Le livre de tous les records ! 1945. Anne Welles quitte sa famille et son fiancé de Nouvelle-Angleterre pour débarquer à New York, la tête pleine de rêves et de gloire. Elle y devient secrétaire d''un avocat spécialisé dans le théâtre et fait la connaissance de deux autres jeunes femmes qui prévoient de faire carrière dans le monde du spectacle: l''ambitieuse et prometteuse Neelly O''Hara et la très belle mais peu talentueuse Jennifer North. Des bureaux d''agents d''artistes aux coulisses de Broadway, des plateaux d''Hollywood aux premières émissions TV, le roman suit leur ascension (et chute) respective, au rythme de leurs rencontres plus ou moins heureuses, carrière, amitié, amours bien sûr et autres trahisons et désillusions... " La Vallées des poupées reste un livre audacieux, effronté, vindicatif, et oui, assurément féministe. Sans compter qu''il fournit à peu près tout l''amusement qu''il est possible d''obtenir sans ordonnance. " Julie Burchill, The Guardian