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Before jackie collins, candace bushnell and lena dunham, jacqueline susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of hollywood starlets, highpowered industrialists and the jetset. Two were published after her death yargo, a scifi book unlike any of her other. But it was the success of her three blockbuster novelsvalley of the dolls, the love machine and once is not enoughthat transformed her into the pucciclad media. Aug 26, 20 a quartercentury after jacqueline susanns death, the novelist who made publishing history with valley of the dolls, the love machine, and once is not enough is being reissued, reexamined, and. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are. Jacqueline susann is a publishing and popculture legend. Jacqueline susanns valley of the dolls is still my. Valley of the dolls is the first novel by american writer jacqueline susann. Her first novel, valley of the dolls, published in 1966, is one of the best. Feminism, but not as we know it 50 years of valley of the dolls. Valley of the dolls is a novel by american writer jacqueline susann, published in 1966. Jacqueline susanns valley of the dolls is still my favourite.
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