基本信息·出版社：Pocket Books ·页码：496 页 ·出版日期：2007年10月 ·ISBN：0743403835 ·条形码：9780743403832 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种：英语 · ...
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基本信息·出版社：Pocket Books
·页码：496 页
·出版日期：2007年10月
·ISBN：0743403835
·条形码：9780743403832
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：好莱坞妻子们: 新一代
内容简介 Power. Sex. Money. Fame. Hollywood players have it all. Ambitious, young, smart and lethal Hollywood wives are back, and leading the pack is mega movie star Lissa Roman. Seemingly invincible, Lissa is on top of her game, until her wild-child daughter is kidnapped by a crazed psychopath.
作者简介 Jackie Collins has been called a 'raunchy moralist' by the late director Louis Malle and 'Hollywood's own Marcel Proust' by Vanity Fair magazine. With over 250 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 counties, and with some twenty New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivaled insiders knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous and sometimes bad!
Jackie Collins started writing as a teenager, making up steamy stories her schoolmates paid to devour. Her first book, The World is Full of Married Men became a sensational bestseller because of its open sexuality and the way it dealt honestly with the double standard. After that came The Stud, Sinners, The Love Killers, The World is Full of Divorced Women, The Bitch, Lovers and Gamblers, Chances, and then the international sensation, Hollywood Wives -- a number 1 New York Times bestseller, which was made into one of ABC's highest-rated miniseries starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.
Readers couldn't wait to race through Lucky, her next book -- a sequel to Chances -- and the story of an incredibly beautiful, strong woman, another number one.
Then came the bad boys of Hollywood in the steamy Hollywood Husbands -- a novel which kept everyone guessing the identities of the true-to-life Hollywood characters.
Jackie then wrote Rock Star -- the story of three rock superstars and their rise to the top, followed by the long-waited sequel to Chances and Lucky -- Lady Boss -- tracking the further adventures of the wild and powerful Lucky Santangelo as she takes control of a Hollywood studio.
Both Lucky and Chances were written and adapted for NBC television by Jackie, who also executive produced the highly successful six-hour miniseries Lucky/Chances, starring Nicollette Sheridan and Sandra Bullock.
In 1992 she produced and wrote the four-hour miniseries, Lady Boss, which became another huge ratings success for NBC. Lady Boss starred Kim Delaney. Next came the love story -- American Star.
And then the dangerously close to the truth Hollywood Kids -- a story of power, sex, danger and ambition among the grown offspring of major celebrities.
In 1996 Vendetta- Lucky's Revenge was published - and became an immediate New York Times bestseller.
And then in 1998, Thrill!, a psychological thriller for the nineties, in which Jackie created her signature mix of unputdownable characters.
After that she wrote L.A. Connections - a four-part serial novel published one per month - Power, Obsession, Murder and Revenge.
In 1999 came Dangerous Kiss -- the return of Lucky Santangelo in a bestselling novel about relationships, addiction, fear and lust.
In the year 2000, Lethal Seduction became the first bestseller for Jackie Collins in the new millennium. This tale of erotic suspense and glamorous intrigue featured Madison Castelli, a character first introduced in the L.A. Connections series.
Hollywood Wives -- The New Generation is an update to Collins' original Hollywood Wives. It features a brand new cast of characters and a totally fresh perspective on how women pursue power, love, sex and success in today's Hollywood. And so the guessing game begins...
Ms. Collins lives in Los Angeles, California. Her hobbies are photography, soul music, and exploring exotic locations so she can write about them later.
文摘 Excerpted from Hollywood Wives: the New Generation by Jackie Collins. Copyright ? 2001. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Extract from Chapter One
'You look fantastic!'
'You think?'
'I know.'
Lissa Roman narrowed her eyes as she studied her reflection in the large, lightbulb-studded makeup mirror. She saw perfection, and so she should, considering she worked like a long-haul truck driver to look as good as she did. And it wasn't easy. It took real dedication and non-stop action. Yoga, Pilates, starvation, ice-cold showers, Brazilian waxing, hair colouring, jogging, swimming, weight training, fasting, aerobics, spinning -- you name it, Lissa did it. Everything except plastic surgery. She was too scared of the knife. Too petrified that the surgeon would make her look like somebody else -- take away her identity, her personality. She had seen it happen to numerous people in Hollywood, men and women. Besides, she was only forty -- younger than Madonna and Sharon Stone, for God's sake. And, anyway, she didn't need it.
'You're sure I look as good as it gets?' she questioned, forcing Fabio, her faithful makeup and hair artist, to repeat his compliments.
'Divine. Beautiful. The works,' Fabio assured her, tossing back his luxuriant mane of expensive hair extensions.
And he meant every word of it, because although Lissa Roman was not a classic beauty, she had that indiscernible something that made her a superstar. It was a combination of blatant sex appeal, fiery energy and a body to die for. Not to mention blazing blue eyes, high cheekbones, and full, pouty lips. Fabio loved basking in her aura.
'All thanks to you and your magic fingers,' Lissa murmured, smoothing her shoulder-length platinum hair.
'That's what Teddy told me last night,' Fabio said, with a self-satisfied smirk.
'Lucky you,' Lissa said, rising from the makeup chair.
'No,' Fabio said, wagging a beringed finge
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