Jacqueline Susann – författare

Giving a party was not as simple as going to one. You could always leave someone else's party. You were stuck with your own.Dolls - red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three starlets become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry. Only when they reach the peak of their careers do they find there's nowhere left to go but down - to the valley of the dolls. A record-breaking bestseller and an instant sensation, this is a salaciously subversive cult classic about the dark heart of fame.'Like reading a very, very long, absolutely delicious gossip column. Magnetic' Nora Ephron'Unputdownable' Candace Bushnell 'A cult classic' Elle 'A pop-culture touchstone: a gleefully salacious story of friendship, sex, backstabbing and pills' New York Times

Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set.Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when it was first published, fifty years ago. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. It is often sited as the bestselling novel of all time.Dolls - red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three beautiful women become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry. Only when they reach the peak of their careers do they find there's nowhere left to go but down - to the Valley of the Dolls.

CHto dlya zhenshchiny schast''e? Prezhde vsego — lyubov''. No esli net lyubvi, chem mozhno ee zamenit''? Den''gami, vlast''yu, slavoj? Tri geroini romana — tri raznye sud''by. EHti zhenshchiny dobilis'' v zhizni mnogogo: populyarnosti, bogatstva, vnimaniya znamenityh i uspeshnyh muzhchin. No chto-to zastavlyaet ih iskat'' zabveniya. A pod rukoj vsegda est'' tabletki — "kukolki",— kotorye unosyat daleko-daleko, v mir sladkih grez...Roman "Dolina kukol" izvestnoj amerikanskoj pisatel''nicy i aktrisy ZHaklin S''yuzan, vyshedshij v svet 1966 godu, proizvel nastoyashchuyu sensaciyu svoimi otkroveniyami o zhizni shou-biznesa i stal ne tol''ko mirovym bestsellerom, no i poistine kul''tovoj knigoj, prodavshejsya bolee chem 40 000 000 tirazhom.

Amanda — krasavica-fotomodel'' na vershine slavy. Mehggi — ambicioznaya molodaya aktrisa, tverdo znayushchaya, chego hochet ot zhizni. Dzhudit — bogataya aristokratka, ves'' mir u ee nog. I ehti tri zhenshchiny, takie raznye, mechtayut ob odnom: zavoevat'' lyubov'' Roberta Stouna, harizmatichnogo i talantlivogo, no zhestokogo. Gipnoticheskaya holodnost'' Stouna podavlyaet volyu, dostoinstvo i individual''nost'' zhenshchin. On ne mozhet lyubit'' — i bezhit ot tekh, kto lyubit ego, poka ne uznaet istinu o sebe samom, o svoem proshlom...ZHaklin S''yuzan — avtor romana "Dolina kukol", poistine kul''tovoj knigi, obshchij tirazh kotoroj prevysil sorok millionov ehkzemplyarov.