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The era-defining cult classic about sex, drugs and show business - now reissued with a striking new cover as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spine design.
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.
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.
Author: Jacqueline Susan
Paperback Published 25 February 2025 454 pages
“The kind of book most of its readers could not put down. I, for one, could not . . . For me reading Valley of the Dolls was like reading a very, very long, absolutely delicious gossip column . . . Magnetic.”—Nora Ephron
“It’s the most unputdownable book.”—Candace Bushnell
“Valley of the Dolls is a grim fable. It’s Thomas Hardy dark. It’s Balzac bleak. It’s Dostoyevsky greige. Nothing ends well. Success corrupts. Fame destroys . . . Everyone is a mess. It is, in other words, the perfect mirror for today’s culture.”—Simon Doonan, Slate
“A cult classic about three girls, striving to become stars, whose dreams come true—only to be derailed by their dependence on ‘dolls,’ Susann’s slang for uppers and downers . . . A racy roman à clef depicting.”—Holly Millea, Elle