Shadow Of The Dolls: A Novel | Rae Lawrence

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	Shadow Of The Dolls: A Novel Rae Lawrence Kensington, 2002 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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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. It shot to the top of the bestseller lists in 1966 and made Jacqueline Susann a superstar. It remains the quintessential big, blockbuster, must-read, can't-put-down bestseller.

Before 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. 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.

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. 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. And if you've never read Valley of the Dolls, no matter. Sometimes the present is even more surprising and fun when you don't remember the past.

And 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. Anne, born and bred in those very circles, must choose between returning home or pursuing a fabulous television career ? and the kind of passion she once knew with Lyon. And Lyon, who loses everything including Anne, looks for happiness in the most unexpected of places.

Taking us behind the closed doors of New York, East Hampton, and Los Angeles, whetting our appetites for more with a new generation of young women and men who grow up far too fast, and spicing the whole story with a generous sprinkling of sex, drugs, and cosmetic surgery, Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the Dolls is the ultimate beach read for our time. But feel free to devour it any time of the year, wherever you are.

It's been a long time since readers had this much fun between the covers. It's time to jump back in.

Anne Welles . . . She finds the courage to leave the only man who ever made her feel like a woman . . . She fights her way to the top of a television career that is even more cutthroat than she's been warned . . . She finds security and contentment with the kind of man she was destined to marry . . . Now she must choose between destiny and her dreams.

Neely O'Hara . . . Her talents take her to the top, while her troubles drag her through rehab after rehab . . . She grasps at the things Anne has turned her back on (her class, her man) . . . She always knows exactly what she wants, and will do whatever it takes to make her dreams come true.

Lyon Burke . . . He takes lovers over love . . . He hustles other people's
talent while neglecting his own . . . He always knows how to look, which restaurants offer the perfect drink and the most cachet, who to pursue, and where to find the best percentage . . . He waits so long to realize his dreams that in the end it may be too late.

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls was one of the sexiest, most shocking, and most sensational novels ever to fly off the shelves. Now, thanks to bestselling novelist Rae Lawrence ? working from Susann's own draft for a sequel ? the fun has just begun.

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GREATEST EVER

Although I haven't read valley of da dolls, shadow of the dolls is full of modern day guily pleasure... with pigments of love/passion/success. I love how the book said that their are no friendships in show biz but onlee... relation ships , the plot was def suspensful and a page turner, the sex was lovely and I liked to see the relationships grow as the characters grew older and how anne had 2 fight her way back to the top again.. ahhh it was reallii gud.. def read it but I'm not sure it will match up to valley dolls because it seems sho gud , i realli love shadow of the dolls , it was heaps more modern too. P.s spoiler alert: Lyon get married to Neely and Anne leaves Lyon , she becomes a top television journalist but then quits her career to marry... thats all i'll say

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another great read

Another fabulous book by Jacqueline Susann. Definite follow up after you read valley of the dolls.

INDEED, A SHADOW OF THE ORIGINAL, YET...

I truly enjoyed this novel, despite the now known fact that it didn't follow up the chronological years left behind by the original author. Sure, Lawrence is no Susann (but has she ever prentended to be?), and her characters could have been a tad meatier (come to think of it, Susann's as well), but, hey, this isn't the work of Proust we're talking here, but a fun and diversionary follow-up to the pop lit classic of all time. Just for that reason alone, SHADOW OF THE DOLLS should definitely be read by all.-----Martin Boucher

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Well written trash :-)

I LOVED Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls", so I was very eager to read this sequel written by Rae Lawrence.
Reading this book as a follow-up to "Valley of the Dolls" might be confusing, due to the change of time and dates in this book.
But I got over it, and I'm fine with the updates.

But had Rae Lawrence changed the names of the characters here, this book could easily stand on it's own feet. And been seen as an updated version of "Valley of the Dolls", instead of a sequel.

Anyway, I enjoyed reading this book, but it left me with one question in mind: Why doesn't Anne need to go to rehab???

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