Valley of the dolls novel5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Married to publicist Irving Mansfield, Susann had acted on Broadway and been a jacqueline-of-all-trades in the early television industry. ![]() Susann, by contrast, was a seasoned survivor long before setting pen to paper. Metalious was a deeply troubled hick who, only a few years after success struck, sabotaged her career with booze and pills, becoming a dreadful problem guest on talk shows and later a cirrhosis fatality. Valley author Jacqueline Susann seized on Metalious' Harlequin-romance-meets-Zola formula and brought it forward into the early years of megapublishing, a task for which she was infinitely better equipped than her predecessor. Like Allison, Valley's Anne Welles eschews her bucolic New England roots in favor of the big city and falls hard for a powerful man, experiences heartbreak, and learns some bitter lessons. Its Ike-era prototype, Grace Metalious' Peyton Place, describes the adulteries and out-of-wedlock pregnancies of a small New England town in Metalious' sequel, Return to Peyton Place, heroine Allison Mackenzie writes a book very like Peyton Place, finds a New York publisher, and enters a swirling cesspool of Manhattan glamour and corruption. Valley of the dolls, to be reprinted next month by Grove Atlantic, was one kind of quintessential trash novel of the '60s (another kind was Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy), written with an insider's eye on the showbiz of the '50s. ![]() 1997 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. MLA style: "Valley of the Dolls." The Free Library. ![]()
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Book guide to getting it on5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They have very different expectations and needs from a book on sex, and those needs are changing as rapidly as technology is changing. Today’s young adults are the first generation who began watching the most explicit porn in history on their phones in Middle School. Anyone who says Why does a book on sex need a new edition? needs to throw away their flip phone. ![]() And good luck to any guy who calls a woman to ask her for a date instead of texting, because she’ll probably think he’s a stalker. No one would have guessed that Chaturbate would become the 28th most popular website in the US, or that women in college would pay for their tuition by selling pics and panties on a website called OnlyFans. Playboy Few people had heard of Bumble and Hinge when the last edition of the Guide to Getting It On went to press four years ago. A book about sex you’ll actually want to read! You’ve never read a manual as warm, friendly, liberating, thorough, and potentially sex-life-changing as the Guide To Getting It On! Neither had anyone in our office which may be why our copies keep disappearing. ![]() ![]() Complex mother and daughter relationship: Check! ![]() If you’re not a YA romance fan, what is still intriguing about this book? But securing her own happily-ever-after will mean she’ll need to stop hiding and start living her own truth-even if it’s messy.įour in the name of romantic book nerd and hoarders’ love, lyrical, family-troubled, emotional, heart-warming, making you sigh incessantly stars! Still, after spending her whole life keeping people out, something about Asher makes Darcy want to open up. Fairy tales are one thing, but real love makes her want to hide inside her carefully constructed ink-and-paper bomb shelter. For the first time in her life, Darcy can’t seem to find the right words. While Darcy is struggling to survive beneath the weight of her mother’s compulsive shopping, Asher Fleet, a former teen pilot with an unexpectedly shattered future, walks into the bookstore where she works…and straight into her heart. ![]() But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance. ![]() There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother’s hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. ![]() |