Cinderella and the carpetbagger
Subtitle: my life as the wife of the "world's best-selling author," Harold Robbins
By: Grace Robbins
Publisher: Bettie Youngs Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Diego]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780988284821; 9780988284845
Subjects: Marriage; American Authors; Biography; Authors' spouses
Other titles: My life as the wife of the "world's best-selling author," Harold Robbins
Description: "The 1960s and '70s were decades like no others -- radical, experimental, libertine. Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times, peppering her memoir with anecdotes of her encounters with luminaries ... The couple was at the center of a globe-trotting jet set, with mansions in Beverly Hills, villas and yachts on the French Riviera and Acapulco. Their life rivaled -- and often supassed -- that of the characters in his books. Champagne flowed, cocaine was plentiful, and sex in the pre-AIDs era was embraced with abandon"--Jacket flap.