![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes the present is even more surprising and fun when you don't remember the past.Īnd 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. ![]() And if you've never read Valley of the Dolls, no matter. 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. 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. 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. It remains the quintessential big, blockbuster, must-read, can't-put-down bestseller.īefore 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. It shot to the top of the bestseller lists in 1966 and made Jacqueline Susann a superstar. ![]() 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. ![]()
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