num_pages: 500
description: Sex and drugs and shlock and more--Jacqueline Susann's addictively entertaining trash classic about three showbiz girls clawing their way to the top and hitting bottom in New York City has it all. Though it's inspired by Susann's experience as a mid-century Broadway starlet who came heartbreakingly close to making it, but did not, and despite its reputation as THE roman á clef of the go-go 1960s, the novel turned out to be weirdly predictive of 1990s post-punk, post-feminist, post "riot grrrl" culture. Jackie Susann may not be a writer for the ages, but--alas!--she's still a writer for our times.
language: English
title: Valley of the Dolls
titlecomplete: Valley of the Dolls
characters: Jennifer North, Anne Welles, Neely O'Hara
genres: Fiction, Classics, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, New York, Historical Fiction, Romance, Adult, Novels
ratings_count: 64748
places: New York City, New York, New York (State)
publisher: Bantam