Jacqueline Susann's Shadow of the DollsCatches up with the earlier book's substance-addled heroines in the late 1980's. Older, but not appreciably wiser, Neely O'Hara has temporarily beaten her multiple addictions and is desperately trying to achieve respectability as a singer and an actor. Former model Anne Welles copes with divorce and single-mother downward mobility before catching her own rising star as a TV journalist. As the brisk plot follows the ladies toward the twenty-first century, we realize that their hangouts and hang-ups may have changed since the '60's, but the most important difference between then and now--to them at least--is inside their medicine cabinets: Valium and Xanax have replaced those old-fashioned "dolls," the crude uppers and downers of a bygone era. Still, all the familiar elements are here: steamy sex, busted love affairs, nasty girl-fights |
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