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"Miss Collins at her raunchy best" - "New York Times". Hollywood wives, they're a privileged breed - glamorous, beautiful and demanding. When life is this fast, there are no guarantees. Status is everything - and that's only as high as the box office of you husband's latest movie. It features: Elaine Cont - wife of a fading star, who'll do anything to put his career back into orbit; Angela Hudson - a breathtakingly beautiful starlet with a wildly ambitious stud for a husband; and, Montana Grey - gorgeous renegade, she'll stop at nothing to make it in the male-dominated world on the other side of the camera. "Hollywood Wives" is a scorching blockbuster that exposes the glittering bitchery of Beverly Hills - before racing to a chilling and unexpected climax... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling writers, with more than 400 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries. Her twenty-three bestselling novels have never been out of print. She lives in Beverly Hills, California. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Hardcover: 510 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st British edition edition (July 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671474065
ISBN-13: 978-0671474065
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces

Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,240,844 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Elaine Conti awoke in her luxurious bed in her luxurious Beverly Hills mansion, pressed a button to open the electrically controlled drapes, and was confronted by the sight of a young man clad in a white T-shirt and dirty jeans pissing a perfect arc into her mosaic-tiled swimming pool. Read the first page

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Ross Conti, George Lancaster, Beverly Hills, Gina Germaine, Buddy Hudson, Sadie La Salle, Neil Gray, Oliver Easterne, Deke Andrews, Karen Lancaster, New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Ron Gordino, Pamela London, Montana Gray, Buddy Boy, San Diego, The Keeper Of The Order, Bibi Sutton, Palm Beach, Adam Sutton, Frances Cavendish, Jason Swankle, Elaine Conti

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This book cites 15 books:

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Novels of All Time (Trashy or Otherwise), July 11, 2001

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I have a degree in English literature, so I've read volumes and volumes of the best pieces of English litererature from the past 400 years. This juicy little novel by Jackie Collins ranks as one of my all-time favorites. While some may critics dismiss it as mere trash, you cannot deny the fascinating character portrayals and unexpected back stories that reminded me of Dickens at his best. The author masterfully weaves various storylines together, culminating in a nailbiting conclusion, and she does it all with a tongue in cheek tone. I hope time is kind to this book, because it deserves a place in literary history.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Jane Austen of the defiantly trashy novel, January 18, 2006

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Jackie Collins novels are the sugar cereal of the book set. Sure, the whole grain, all natural cereals are better for you and are in themselves pretty tasty but once in a while you need a box of sugary, artifically flavored cereal and should feel no guilt about it.

Hollywood Wives is an absorbing novel about the intersecting lives of a number of people. Is it realistic? Maybe not, but it certainly isn't boring. The book was originally released in 1983 (and even despite that, it has a very late 70's vibe of free loves and drugs without much thought of the consequences), and while the fashion choices seem funny by today's standards, most of the book could take place in the present.

If this book had been in less capable hands, it probably wouldn't have been as much fun; Collins has a way of throwing out a ridiculous situation in a very believable manner as well as delivering a series of minor detonations throughout the text before the main reveal, and I eagerly awaited to see when all hell would break loose. And while Collins' writing style is not up to that of say Stephen King or Richard Russo, she is heads above Dan Brown and James Patterson.

Great fun.

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4.0 out of 5 stars THE Collins Classic, November 27, 2004

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Of all of Jackie Collins' novels, Hollywood Wives ranks as one of her most successful and shocking Hollywood novels. This was the first Jackie Collins novel I ever read; in fact, I came across it at my local library by accident. From the very first page I was hooked, and to be honest I loved all the sex, drugs, and Hollywood shenanigans. Collins really blew the lid off of what it was like to be a "Hollywood wife": affairs, drugs, plastic surgery, pregnancies, glitz, glamor, and a hell of a lotta fun. Normally, I don't give a Collins novel more than three stars, but this one was just too good to rate below four stars. If you're looking for great escapism and a peek into what Hollywood was, still is, like then Hollywood Wives is a must read. The mini-series based on the novel wasn't too bad, either.

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Published on January 26, 2005 by Martin Boucher

5.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood Wives
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Published on November 22, 2004 by Amy

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best of JC
Definitely this is not the best book of JC, as all the books you read about Hollywood is always the same, sex, sex and deceive your couple no matter what, many stories of these... Read more

Published on September 10, 2004 by Jorge Frid

4.0 out of 5 stars I love this book
I own a few of Jackie Collins' novels and "Hollywood Wives" is great. It's a peek inside what Hollywood is really like, affairs, drugs, murder, plastic surgery, etc. Read more

Published on April 5, 2004 by Niccole A. Hatcher

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I have read in a long time
I went to the libray looking for the newest Hollywood Wives by Mrs. Collins, when I got it I was surprised that it was the older one...but I wasn't disapointed. Read more

Published on February 13, 2004 by Stephanie Ladner

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I expected, but good overall
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