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by Olivia Goldsmith
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:From the New York Times–bestselling author of The First Wives Club: This novel about an aging actress's revenge on Hollywood is a "hoot" (Entertainment Weekly). Mary Jane Moran was an ambitious New York stage actress who lost the role of a lifetime and the one man she loved—all because Hollywood thought she was too plain and too old to star in the movies. But M. J. knew what she had inside—she just needed a little help bringing it show more out. Two years, forty pounds, sixty-seven thousand dollars, and a full round of nips, tucks, lipos, and implants later, the Broadway gypsy moth emerged a gorgeous butterfly with a new name and a new body. The woman now called Jahne Moore was svelte, sexy, and ripe for the big time. Jahne and her two sisters-in-arms—one ruthless LA native and one sweet Texas belle—are making their move on the West Coast. Television's top creator wants them in the season's white-hot new series. But as the starlets climb furiously to the top, they struggle to hide the secrets of their pasts. And Jahne Moore must give her most convincing performance ever when the same man who once broke her heart begs her to play a starring role—both in his show and in his life . . . "[A] juicy novel about Hollywood celebrities and secrets." —Publishers Weekly "Compulsively readable." —Daily News (New York) "Delicious and satisfying." —Detroit Free Press. show lessTags
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How can I get the 13 hours it took me to read this back? I should have stopped reading at 30%, but I kept thinking that this is Olivia Goldsmith -it HAS to get better, right?
It was bad enough that you needed a score card to remember all the character's in this dreck book, but the whining of the main character's got me to the point that I had hoped they had all had something terrible happen to them.
Poor them-they are lovely, they are popular, they are making million's - my heart bleeds. Yes they have no privacy, but choosing this career path was, as I said-a choice.
To make matters for me worse, I went to amazon while still on my Kindle to read the reviews to see if anyone thought the same as I did -and one of the reviewers ruined a VERY show more important plot point.
The book does seem to pick up at the 75%, but by then I was skimming for good parts and it really got interesting at the end. However, it was mostly ruined by Jahnes' whining (love that spelling *rolling my eyes*good grief)
Stay far, far away even though it only costs $2.99 on Kindle and on Nook! show less
It was bad enough that you needed a score card to remember all the character's in this dreck book, but the whining of the main character's got me to the point that I had hoped they had all had something terrible happen to them.
Poor them-they are lovely, they are popular, they are making million's - my heart bleeds. Yes they have no privacy, but choosing this career path was, as I said-a choice.
To make matters for me worse, I went to amazon while still on my Kindle to read the reviews to see if anyone thought the same as I did -and one of the reviewers ruined a VERY show more important plot point.
The book does seem to pick up at the 75%, but by then I was skimming for good parts and it really got interesting at the end. However, it was mostly ruined by Jahnes' whining (love that spelling *rolling my eyes*good grief)
Stay far, far away even though it only costs $2.99 on Kindle and on Nook! show less
Olivia Goldsmith does the world of Hollywood well, and this book is no exception. She takes three young women, two new to Hollywood and one child of stars, and follows their trip to and through Hollywood.
The book is fun to read in spots, but in others it dragged awfully for me. The last 50 pages I was gasping for the end. But I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Goldsmith OR Hollywood fiction.
The book is fun to read in spots, but in others it dragged awfully for me. The last 50 pages I was gasping for the end. But I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Goldsmith OR Hollywood fiction.
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Author Olivia Goldsmith was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey in 1949. She attended New York University and became one of the first partners at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in New York. After she divorced her husband, she moved to London, changed her legal name to Justine Rendal, and became a writer. Her 1992 debut show more novel, "The First Wives Club" became a best-seller and was made into a movie in 1996. In her stories, there's a transformation of the main character and, according to Goldsmith, "In the Olivian universe, everybody gets what they deserve." Besides novels, she wrote articles for The New York Times and Cosmopolitan and wrote children's books under the name Justine Rendal. She received the Woman of Vision Award in 1997. She died from complications related to anesthesia on January 15, 2004 at the age of 54 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Illusies
- Original publication date
- 1993
- Dedication*
- Opgedragen aan Paul Eugene Smith Te land, ter zee of in de lucht
- First words
- "All right, doctor," she said looking directly at him.
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- 7 — Dutch, English, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 6
