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Infamous (Nova Audio Books) [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Joan Collins (Author), Erika Leigh (Reader)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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Book Description

May 1, 1996 Nova Audio Books
In Joan Collins third novel, Katherine Bennet is the star who has made "The Skeffingtons" the most watched TV soap opera in America. She has money, fame, power, but her private life is in tatters. Newly divorced, with a son threatening to go off the rails, Katherine promises herself and her public that she will never marry again. But she underestimates the sheer isolation of being as famous as she is - a woman sought out by the wrong people for the wrong reasons and avoided by all the right people. Such isolation makes a woman vulnerable - especially to the wrong man.

Joan Collins evokes the glamorous decade in which she emerged as a world superstar in "Dynasty". This novel is an engrossing and utterly realistic portrait of what it is like to be a woman with everything the world can offer - except the one thing she wants above all: someone who truly loves the real Katherine Bennet.

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From Publishers Weekly

She's back. In the recent court battle between Collins and Random House, the jury found that Collins had turned in a "complete" manuscript and so could keep her $1.2 million advance. The jury didn't have to decide if the novel was "acceptable," the more stringent criterion most authors contractually face. Dutton, however, has decided that Collins's newest novel, for which it contracted in the spring of 1995, is not only complete but acceptable-but for what? Perhaps for hitting bestsellers lists, by surfing the publicity wave lifted by the trial; certainly not for claiming literary merit. The book, based at least in part on Collins's own life, is a howler. The heroine is Katherine Bennet, star of the prime-time soap The Skeffingtons; the time frame is the late 1980s. Katherine has a host of problems. She must cope with a rummy ex-husband and a rebellious son who's a bit of a jailbird. Though beloved by a nice-guy scriptwriter, she falls hard for a cad of a Frenchman who chases other women, including her on-screen rival, once an abused child. Lurid back-stories pass for plot, and the prose is equally beyond the fringe: "She had curly carrot hair that reminded Barney of the strawberry milkshakes he sorely missed"; "A man with a face like a hungry dog, and a thick ginger toupee, like a dead cat, perched on his head." Collins was dynamite playing villainess Alexis Carrington on Dynasty, but in her latest stab at playing a writer, she flubs nearly every line. Major ad/ promo; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection; author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Collins, wearing her novelist's hat, here writes about what she knows best: trashy prime-time dramas, egotistical stars, and the fawning masses.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Nova Audio Books; Abridged edition (May 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561008869
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561008865
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,987,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An instant classic, March 8, 2000
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This review is from: Infamous (Paperback)
I am not a fan of romance novels, and I cannot read anything by Joan's sister Jackie. Joan Collins though taught me what great writing is all about. To live, to love, to eat gourmet food all while living a life of fame and secrecy...it blew me away. The words flowed like honey from the page and took my breath away. I could only hope to approach Joan's writing style with my own meager attempts at prose. All this, and the woman acts too! Joan Collins is a spectacular writer and one of the best we have writing today. Joan is so great, she confounds the experts. She is YEARS ahead of her time, which is why she had that trouble in court. They didn't get her and she didn't yeild...a true artist and a great inspiration to all writers.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a classic work, July 6, 1999
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Margret Meed of "Gone with the Wind" fame, watch out...you have met your match and her name is COllins. This woman has come a long way from staring in an episode of "Star Trek", but she draws on her youth and experience to outshine her famous sister in prose. The real talent in the family all belongs to Joan, the other is but a shadow of the former's talent. Joan paints charaters the way Van Gogh painted portraits. Her colors blend to form a lush landscape inhabited by facinating charcters in spellbinding outfits. If Romanace has a name, she has known it. Collin's isn't afraid to tackle the deep questions of life's meaning: love, death, betrayal, and money. If I could live out the drama penned by this talent, I could die a happy person. All we lack if the film of this masterpeice for life to be complete!!! Maybe she will star in it too!!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars simply the best, February 21, 2000
This review is from: Infamous (Paperback)
a wonderful book from a woman who has learned from her years what life and love can be. I can think of no greater author this century than Joan for capturing life in a phrase, a smile in a word, or an experience in a sentence. Joan has written the way women long to live, full of passion and verve, always looking for the miracle man to sweep us away. Don't bother with Goethe for classic literature. He couldn't hold a candle to her. Joan captures the psyche of women like Freud never could. A must read for all.
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