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WHERE LOVE HAS GONE [Mass Market Paperback]

Harold Robbins (Author)
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February 3, 1977
Harold Robbins once said, “For me, the goal is always to make the page disappear and speak to my reader face to face as each character comes to life.”

The 1962 novel that rocked Hollywood to its core is finally back in print. Ripped from the headlines, Where Love Has Gone is inspired by the real-life murder of Johnny Stompanato, Lana Turner’s lover, who was allegedly stabbed by the actress’ daughter.

Luke Carey has a wife and a baby on the way. His future looks bright … until his past catches up with him unexpectedly. A phone call in the dead of night summons him back to San Francisco to help his fourteen-year-old daughter Danielle, whom he hasn’t seen in six years. But helping Danielle means he may have to face his ex-wife Nora—a prospect Luke is none too eager to explore.

The inspiration for the 1964 blockbuster film starring Bette Davis.
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket (February 3, 1977)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671811541
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671811549
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,522,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE GONE WRONG, January 6, 2011
This review is from: Where Love Has Gone (Paperback)
Based unofficially on the then-Lana Turner/Johnny Stompanato trial that involved a knife and the daughter of the late movie star, this sordid tale follows the same track-type puzzling murder, but goes once step further by including the omitted denouement thought by all regarding the real-life case. Protagonist Luke Lurey is the ex-husband caught in the middle, whose ever-present guidance helps put the pieces back together. And what wicked pieces they end up being. Just like any scandal sheet type magazine of the time, this Harold Robbins offering is pulp fiction at its best. With its effervescent plot scheme and narratively swinging point of view, this "fictional" delivery by the man who once has been hailed as a master storyteller is one addictive read that surely will please fans of the melodrama, and that, despite the toned-down sex scenes of its time (1962).-----Martin Boucher
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A pageturner, February 17, 2009
The name Harold Robbins brings to mind words such as "trash", "sleaze" and the like. I have only read a couple of his books and they have been of varying quality, from the awful Descent to Xanadu to the not-bad Spellbinder, and the fascinating Blood Royal (although that last one was written by Junius Podrug).

I've heard that "Where Love Has Gone" is regarded as a roman a clef about the Lana Turner/Cheryl Crane/Johnny Stompanato murder scandal. That may be true; I'm sure Robbins was inspired by it when he wrote the book. But he still makes the characters and the story his own. The narrator is Luke Carey, now happily married and expecting a baby with his wife Elizabeth. He learns that his daughter, Danielle, from his previous marriage to rich sculptress Nora Hayden. Luke goes back to San Francisco to help his daughter, whom he hasn't seen in six years. Through flashbacks we get to know the characters and their history, and Luke and Nora's miserable marriage. Luke narrates most of the book, but there are scenes where he's not present that are told in third person. The present-time story works as a frame story for the flashbacks where the real meat of the story is. And Robbins has created a great, three dimensional character in Luke, and he shows a tenderness and insight into the human nature that I haven't noticed in the other books I've read by him.

"Where Love Has Gone" is not a suspense novel, but it's still a page turner. Highly recommended. This deserves to still be in print.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Novel, October 23, 2005
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Only the author of The Carpetbaggers could have written this explosive novel about the moment of truth for a group of people trapped between a disastrous past and a precarious future.

You will meet Luke Carey, who woke up one night to the telephone call that altered his entire life; Nora, his first wife, who believed that her only responsibility was to her ever hungry body; Dani their daughter, fourteen and rudderless in a glittering adult world; Marguerite Cecilia Hayden, Dani's grandmother, who could manage two huge fortunes but not her amoral daughter; and Elizabeth, Luke's second wife, who took a gamble few women would willing to take. --from book's back cover
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