Scruples

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From the great new talent of Judith Krantz: the ultimate románcé the story of love, desire, and the triumph of one woman who dared to reach out for everythíng she needed
Played out against the opulence of Beverly Hills, the elegance of Paris, the ruthless worlds of high fashion and international movie-making, this is the story of Billy Ike-horn and her metamorphosis into one of the world's most desirable women. Once she had been the desperately unhappy and unattractive daughter of a reclusive doctor, the "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston family. Now, she was beautiful, glamor-ous, and sought after . . . and she gloried in it. Unleashing her long-pent-up passión, Billy moved from one man to the next until she found Ellis Ikehorn, nearly forty years her senior and ruler of a vast industrial empire. At their villa on the French Riviéra, their apartment in Paris, or their vineyard estate in California, Billy learned to forget the pain of her past. Their happiness was totál... Tovább

Fülszöveg

From the great new talent of Judith Krantz: the ultimate románcé the story of love, desire, and the triumph of one woman who dared to reach out for everythíng she needed
Played out against the opulence of Beverly Hills, the elegance of Paris, the ruthless worlds of high fashion and international movie-making, this is the story of Billy Ike-horn and her metamorphosis into one of the world's most desirable women. Once she had been the desperately unhappy and unattractive daughter of a reclusive doctor, the "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston family. Now, she was beautiful, glamor-ous, and sought after . . . and she gloried in it. Unleashing her long-pent-up passión, Billy moved from one man to the next until she found Ellis Ikehorn, nearly forty years her senior and ruler of a vast industrial empire. At their villa on the French Riviéra, their apartment in Paris, or their vineyard estate in California, Billy learned to forget the pain of her past. Their happiness was totál but brief. After five ecstatic years, Billy was alone once more. To fill the grow-ing, dreadful void, she created Scruples, a playland specialty shop where the rich
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could indulge their most lavish desires. For somé, Scruples was the beginning of a dream come true—for Billy, it was the first step toward finding her real self and her desires.
With penetratjng insight and shocking de-tail, Judith Krantz intimately evokes the public and priváté worlds of the super wealthy, the ambitious, and the talented. A keen observer and a brilliant storyteller, she vividly portrays the raw sexuality, the needs and the drives of the world's most beautiful people. An important contribu-tion to an immensely popular genre, Scruples will leave millions of readers breathlessly awaiting the next Judith Krantz növel.
Judith Krantz, a born and bred Manhattanite, has lived happily in Beverly Hills for the past seven years. The West Coast Contributing Editor of Cosmopolitan magaziné, she is mar-ried to Stephen Krantz, an independent film producer.
After graduating from Wellesley, Judith Krantz lived for a year in Paris, where she worked in public relations. Upon her return to New York, she began her long and success-ful career as an editor on women's maga-zines, including a three-year period as a fashion editor. A world traveler, Judith Krantz makes an annuai pilgrimage to the ski slopes of Europe and frequently visits England, Francé, and Italy. Her avocations are "read-ing and reading" and interior decorating.
Scruples is Judith Krantz's first növel. At the moment, she is busily at work on her second. Vissza