Jackie Collins broke into the big time with this unashamedly trashy novel. To date it remains her biggest success...Hollywood Wives appeals to those readers who are interested in sex, fame and money, in other words just about everyone.
If the The Loved One is high literature then Collins's blockbuster is low literature. Moreover, like Waugh, she knows her territory, makes her points and takes no prisoners. This is a portrait of Reagan's America and a gallery of tacky charcters indulging in 1980s materialism, decadence and success-at-any price overkill in Tinseltown.
The prose style is uncomplicated which translates as anyone with a low reading ability can follow the story. Expletives, drug references crime and lots of sex are the author's stock-in-trade. It could be argued that Collins is the female Harold Robbins, who veered even more into the pornographic.
Hollywood Wives evolved into a mega mini series and was a ratings smash. Collins has just published her 33rd novel.
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