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Judith Krantz fue una autora estadounidense celebrada por sus novelas románticas de gran éxito. Sus obras, traducidas a 52 idiomas y vendiendo más de 85 millones de copias en todo el mundo, se adentran en las vidas entrelazadas de mujeres ambiciosas. Krantz era conocida por su narrativa inmersiva y su capacidad para atraer a los lectores a mundos de riqueza e intriga.







Barcelona. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. 19 cm. 475 p., 1 h. 1º ed. Colección 'Novelistas del día'. Traducción del inglés de Ana Mª de la Fuente. Fuente, Ana María de la. 1932- .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-30291-9
A novel about three female models from different places and times in the 20th century, all connected to a single man.
This is a tale of a mother and her illegitimate daughter's relationship gone wrong and a story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the international auction houses.
Eve de Lancel dared to bring endless scandal upon herself when she ran away from home to live in unrepentant sin, to win stardom singing in Paris music halls, to risk her life at the Front during World War I, to marry the Vicomte Paul de Lancel and become the greatest lady of Champagne.
The story of a temple of high fashion where the wealthy and chic sip champagne, browse and gossip. It is the dreamchild of the fabled Billy Ikehorn, whose ruthless search for fulfilment leads her from lover to lover. The author's other titles include Mistral's Daughter and Princess Daisy.
PASSION...In a tale as timely as "Scruples," as compelling as "Dazzle," asintriguing as "Mistral's Daughter," Judith Krantz launches three innocentbeauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Threeof its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collectionof bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract. But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, isfurious. Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face. GLAMOUR... But Justine isn't about to play his game. She dispatches these threesensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, fiery, drollFrancesca Severino. Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discoveryand love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan thatwill change her own life. SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.
Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . continues. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life--Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy's heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O'Neill, Billy's partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.
Here is Judith Krantz's greatest triumph--I'll Take Manhattan. In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, she weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character--sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment--until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father's magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B --the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.