Title: Drams are not enough
First published: 1987
Description: ***Temptress, goddess, star - Alyssia Del Mar was all of these to the millions of movie fans who worshiped her extravagant allure and irresistible sensuality.*** But to the people whose paths crossed hers, she was something more: a child of poverty whose innocent and overwhelming need to be loved drove her to the top - and made her the pan in a family's bid for absolute power.

**To Desmond Cordiner, feared patriarch,** who presided over Magnum Pictures, Alyssia's magnificent presence could save a studio - and his skin - before stardom destroyed her... **To Barry Cordiner, Desmond's nephew,** she as the perfect wife, until her own success outdistanced his...  **To Hap, Desmond's charismatic son** and the ***love of Alyssia's life,*** she could be the inspiration that would make him the greatest director of hi generation - unless their scandalous affair totally destroyed them first...  **To Beth Gold, Barry's twin sister,** she became an object of hatred after a family tragedy destroyed their friendship... **To P.D. Zaffarano, the superagent cousin** with enough ***mob connections*** to topple the family empire, she was his ticket to the top and a necessary ally...

**Spanning the sixties to the eighties**, moving from migrant workers' shacks in the San Joaquin Valley to palatial Beverly Hills estates, from a remote film location in Kenya to a luxurious villa overlooking Lake Como in Italy - **here is a sweeping novel about five members of a legendary family and their effect n the eternally vulnerable woman who was known as the last movie star.**
Subjects: Jacqueline Briskin, Historical, Fiction, Literature, Print book, Braile, Audio-book, e-book, Family, Friendships, Romance, Love, Drama, Love affairs, Scandal, Movie making, Motion pictures, Studios, Directors, Actors, Actresses, Stardom, Twins, Mafia, Tragedy, Motion picture actors and actresses, Large type books, English fiction, Fiction, general, Romance fiction, Romance-language fiction
Places: San Joaquin Valley, Beverly Hills, Lake Como, Italy, California
People: German
Time periods: 20th Century 1959 - 1986