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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A sensuous, fast-paced, powerful story that is very gripping,
By A Customer
This review is from: Intimate: A Novel (Paperback)
If you are not already an Elizabeth Gage devotee, you are in for one special treat. Ms.Gage possesses a rare gift for words, an unique talent for vibrant phrasing that carries the plot along and develops an intimate view of her characters. Her writing has always been extremely erotic and quite graphic, but without being offensive. Her current novel, INTIMATE, is no exception. It chronicles the intricately-weaved relationships between a man and two women, tormented souls with secrets in their pasts. Gage, with her uncanny ability to bring alive raw emotion on the printed page, transports you to to the presence of company who find that love can be the cruelest of weapons. Utterly compelling and absolutely rivetting. Bravo!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Underground,
By Doreen Appleton (Scottsdale, Arizona) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Intimate: A Novel (Paperback)
Simon & Schuster did not want Elizabeth Gage. Joni Evans, then the wife of Dick Snyder (who later ran Little Golden Books into the ground, as was reported by Publishers Weekly many times), rejected the book on behalf of S&S. Bill Grose, the head of Pocket Books, somehow got around her, and S&S exercised its topping privilege to win Jay Garon's auction and acquire A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING for $511,500. Garon's contract was a good one: the author retained all rights except North American. With foreign sales, the earnings reached $1.4 million.
S&S didn't want Gage because they had Jackie Collins, that great talent, and Judith Michael, the nerdy husband-and-wife writing team. They were also offended that this first novelist from Glenview, Illinois, had so much more talent than their own authors. At a lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Michael Korda and his then special friend Trish Lande tried to get Gage and her husband to change to a writing husband-and-wife team like Judith Michael. Gage and her husband refused. S&S walked out of the Four Seasons while the author was in the ladies' room. Later Korda tried to get Gage to take a lower royalty than the one specified in the contract. Gage refused.After six weeks of pressure. S&S caved. The editing, by a faceless group of editors, was finished, the book was ready to go to press, when Korda turned the script over to Lande, saying "See if you can find anything wrong with this." Lande covered the manuscript with coffee stains and cut out chapters which were crucial to the momentum of the book. In a long-distance conference call to Gage in Hawaii, Korda told her, "You have to make Trish's changes. You have to understand why it is so important that you surrender to us." Gage lectured Korda and Lande over the phone about Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, which which Fitzgerald stops the action to simply give the names of the people who visited West Egg that summer. "My chapters are far more important to the movement of the story than Fitzgerald's Chapter 4." Chastened, furious, Korda said "I guess Trish and I should read those chapters again." In the end the chapters stayed. The book became a New York Times bestseller, But S&S did not forgive. They withdrew Gage's second novel, Pandora's Box, from the stores after one week "for lack of interest." Jay Garon, furious, moved Gage to Pocket Books, where she received big advances but zero promotion. As a result, Gage never became a brand name novelist, but her five novels for S&S/Pocket and her two books for Mira remain cult classics with avid fans around the world. Her unique combination of violence, sex, and psychological depth set her far above the Krantzes and Collinses and Bradfords of the writing world.
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