As popular fashion model, Fling, is laid to rest--an apparent suicide--her mourners dream of avenging her death, secretly blaming Kingman Beddell, Fling's millionaire boyfriend. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Ungainly prose and forced characterizations weaken real-life socialite Rautbord's (coauthor of Girls in High Places ) valiant attempt to write a glitzy commercial novel. Fling, the 24-year-old model behind a popular fragrance and the wife of ruthless business tycoon Kingman Beddall, is dead after a suspicious fall from the roof of the Manhattan high-rise her husband owns. A flashback chronicles Fling's modeling career, Beddall's ascent to the top of his Wall Street empire and the lives of the women Beddall has brutally used along the way. As Beddall's ego carries him further into debt with a dangerous Japanese lender, Fling becomes the innocent victim of his dirty dealings. With the descriptions of glamorous parties, yachts, mansions and shopping sprees and some lively minor characters, Rautbord is on the right track, but the novel remains inert, overwhelmed by due to stereotypic lly sketched main characters, predictable plot twists, endless name-dropping and cataloguing of brands and labels. the narrative re mains inert. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Kingman Beddell, flamboyant millionaire with a murky past, abandons his Southern aristocrat wife and tawdry mistress to marry Fling, a naive supermodel who truly loves the charismatic lout. Fling's face zooms Kingman's cosmetic company to the top. Freddie, her makeup man and best friend, becomes Countess Fredericka, wife of the richest man in Europe. Kingman's ex-wife and ex-mistress have nervous breakdowns and become best friends. Kingman buys everything in sight, building an empire on cooked books, ego, and, with tragic consequences, credit from yakuza money lenders. Yes, the characters are caricatures and the plot farfetched. Who cares? This quick-paced, glitzy novel--spiced with hints of kinky sex, framed by the tension of a suspicious suicide--is just plain fun. Patrons looking for good summer reading will eat it up. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/92.
- Donna L. Schulman, Cornell Univ. Libs., New York
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Donna L. Schulman, Cornell Univ. Libs., New York
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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