A well-known modeling agent draws on her insider's knowledge of the industry to tell the story of a modeling agent who tries to protect her star client from a ruthless promoter with a criminal past. Reprint.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Models and the men who use them for profit and other base needs wallow in a mudslide of glitz, sleaze and money in a debut blatantly tailored to prurient interest. Blanchard, the modeling agent who discovered Cheryl Tiegs, among others, and Barsocchini (Ghost) deliver a facile tale about the ugly business of beautiful women. Forty-year-old Jessica Cartwright is one of the industry's top agents, best known for creating supermodel Caddie Dean, taking her from troubled teen to the cover of Time. Caddie has a sordid, painful past, and her present is not much better, given the violent and greedy husband who's determined to ride her star to compensate for his own insufficiencies. Jessica, a fair-dealing, level-headed businesswoman, tends to her charge's public image and private anguish. But her world is rocked when self-styled rival agent Garret Stowe takes the modeling world by storm and stealth, ruthlessly using the women he holds in sexual thrall. Soon, Jessica finds herself vying with Garret for Caddie and other top models in the international high-fashion capitals, and the novel gathers suspense. Blanchard appears to be settling some scores here, and perhaps readers in the know will be able to suss them out through the whiff of roman a clef that hovers over the book. This is lurid fare, stocked with plenty of sex and violence, written in prose that's as subtle as a gob of pancake makeup and peopled by characters who are easily as animated as the most lively department store manikins. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Scandal, drugs, sexual abuse, blackmail, and betrayal are the norm in the ruthless world of high-fashion modeling portrayed in this first novel. Jessica Cartwright, a principled agent, becomes locked in a struggle for professional survival with Garret Stowe, a mysterious and dangerous newcomer to the scene. Blanchard, herself the founder of a modeling agency, obviously knows the fashion industry, but the ease with which Garret manipulates the otherwise canny business leaders is not always believable. The action moves from one set piece to another, with the poorly developed secondary characters merely pawns for showcasing Garret's evil. Although this book is not an essential purchase, its surface glamour and occasionally spicy scenes will attract readers looking for escape into the troubles of the rich and famous. For large popular collections.?Barbara E. Kemp, SUNY at Albany
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome book,
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This review is from: The Look (Paperback)
This book has kept me going like no other book I have ever read. Nina Blanchard does an excellent job of exposing th real modeling world. The characters and storyline are so real you wouldn't know it was fiction. I definately would recoend this boo to anyone.
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is an exciting peek into the structure behind modeling.,
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This review is from: The Look (Paperback)
I thought The Look was an excellent book and I just recommended it to a friend. It is surprising and original and I'm glad I got the chance to read it.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Trash, but page-turning trash.,
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This review is from: The Look (Paperback)
I guess I wasn't looking for real literature when I picked up this book, but then again I was looking for something a little less....well, fluffy. The characters were all two-dementional (barely) and stereotypical (you could pick out the bad guys from their first words), the story was contrived (you spend the first few pages waiting for the mighty to fall and then spent the rest of the time waiting around until they come back to the top), and the glimse into the real world of modeling I expected was something I'd read in a tabloid or seen on E! many times before....however I was sucked in until the end. The sub-plots weren't finely woven additions to the story, but simply after-thoughts added to assist the ending. Borrow this for mindless reading on the beach...don't waste your money.
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