Hollywood Wives
Jackie Collins turns her gossip-trained eye on the wives, mistresses, and studio widows who orbit late-seventies Hollywood power, charting a glossy web of affairs, producer fights, and tabloid vendettas. Across a handful of marriages on the brink, she follows women trying to convert beauty, marriage, or sheer nerve into leverage while their husbands cheat, cut deals, and scheme against one another. The result is a bestselling industry saga, pulpy and propulsive, that helped define the modern Hollywood blockbuster novel.
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A sprawling 1980s Beverly Hills cast, washed-up actors, hungry starlets, ruthless agents, and the wives running the social calendar, twist around an awards-season cycle and a series of very nasty crimes.
Hollywood Wives was written by Jackie Collins and published in 1983. It became a global blockbuster and helped define the 1980s glamor-fiction genre. It was adapted into a 1985 ABC miniseries.
Jackie Collins wrote 32 novels, several of which are connected. The Lucky Santangelo saga (Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and others) is her most prominent series. Hollywood Wives has its own loose continuity with Hollywood Husbands and Hollywood Kids.
Hollywood Wives is 519 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Hollywood Wives takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
Hollywood Wives is a standalone novel by Jackie Collins, not part of a series.
Hollywood Wives is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.