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"Captivating. Krantz's latest tome... is her most erotic yet.Dazzle sizzles." --Daily News, Los Angeles. Now, Judith Krantz, best-selling author ofScruples,Mistral's Daughter, andTill We Meet Again, invites you into the luscious, monied world of Jazz Kilkullen, her most daring, provocative, impetuous heroine yet. "Deliciously sexy." --Cosmopolitan. Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world. "Enjoyable... Jazz is one of the most likable free souls to emerge from the novel industry." --The Pittsburgh Press. But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything. "Judith Kratz's best novel sinceScruples." --Associated Press. "Steamy." --Los Angeles Times. "Hot... bubbling with sex, intrigue, and-most of all-money. Krantz is at the height of her form here." --Booklist From the Paperback edition.
Author Notes
Judith Krantz was born on January 9, 1929 in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1948. She was a fashion publicist in Paris in the late 1940s. She was the fashion editor for Good Housekeeping magazine, a contributing writer to McCall's magazine and Ladies' Home Journal, and the contributing West Coast editor of Cosmopolitan.
Her first novel, Scruples, was published in 1978. Her other novels include Princess Daisy, Mistral's Daughter, I'll Take Manhattan, Till We Meet Again, The Jewels of Tessa Kent, and Lovers. Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000. Although she did not publish her first book until she was 50, Krantz's 10 novels have together sold more than 85 million copies in more than 50 languages. Most of her books also became TV movies or mini-series, often produced by her husband, Steve Krantz.
Because of her love for reading and writing, Krantz was an enthusiastic supporter of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and an active member of the Council of the Library Foundation. In 2014, she received the Light of Learning Award from the LFLA. In recognition of her many years of support, the Los Angeles Public Library named the Judith Krantz Fiction Collection in her honor.
Judith Krantz passed away on 06/22/2019 at the age of 91.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Encountering characters named Jazz (nee Juanita Isabella) Kilkullian and Crumpet Ives, there's no doubt that one has entered the la-la land of Krantz, the doyenne of dish. The erstwhile mistress of the un-put-downable novel, however, has come a cropper in her latest effort: the seams and strain are a bit too evident. The narrative careens giddily among the lives and loves of Jazz, a brilliant celebrity photographer somewhere between Avedon and Mapplethorpe; her rugged rancher father, whose passion has ebbed following the death of Jazz's mother, a legendary Swedish film star (Bergman, anyone?), but whose flames are rekindled by an only slightly over-the-hill model; Jazz's two half-sisters, Valerie and Fernanda, awash in a variety of sexual activities--and lack thereof; and assorted paramours of the above, too numerous (and too forgettable) to mention. Never a disciple of realism, Krantz's interweaving of plots here is too contrived and her relationships, both familial and amatory, too oblique. Her purple prose takes on ever deeper hues, and her customary parade of hyperbolic description is in constant evidence. Jazz's tresses, for example, are variously presented as ``cornflake-colored,'' ``streaked with every color from chutney to tortoiseshell'' and ``French toast, a little burned around the edges, with melted butter streaking over it.'' One hardly knows whether to commend Lady Clairol or Julia Child. 500,000 first printing; first serial to Cosmopolitan; BOMC main; major ad/promo; author tour. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
A drizzle of dazzle that has it all, Krantz-wise: plot (creaking), sex (frequent, hard-working, with follow-the-dot detail), and clothes (fantastic). This lime the bouncy, beautiful, give-'em-hell perky kid is Jazz, daughter of ranch-owner Mike Kilkullen and a deceased Swedish actress. Mike's enormous California spread has gilded developers licking their chops, while his first (divorced) wife, porcelain, poisonous Liddy from Old Family Philly, and Jazz's half-sisters--Valerie the talentless decorator, and the much-married Fernanda, constantly in search of the ""Big O""--can hardly wait until the ranch money comes to them. Jazz herself, a top celeb and advertising photographer, was dumped at the altar by famous photojournalist Gabe, with whom she traveled the world and who was the First, ""with a great scream of ravening triumph."" Now comes Casey Nelson, Mike's new Cow Boss. They row, but a date with him denudes the closet. For a start, ""she had to dive into total Chanel,"" but she ends with a forest-green sequined miniskirt and organza blouse, a dark green blazer, high-heeled black pumps and ""chunky glass earrings"" costing a thou from Yves Saint Laurent. There are similar total ""images"" throughout. At the close, after Mike's death, there's also something about an ancient land grant and a happy solution to the econo-ecological bother. Swags of glittery stuff--sex, clothes, and money--that will decorate drag-store and airport displays for months to come. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
