| Rock Star Contributor(s): Collins, Jackie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671708805 ISBN-13: 9780671708801 Publisher: Pocket Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: January 1990 Annotation: With the fast-paced excitement and glamour that have made each of her books a major international bestseller, Jackie Collins now turns from the husbands and wives of Beverly Hills to the glittering world of big-time music-- the world of sex, drugs and rock and roll, in which hopes and dreams are as important as drop-dead ambition, ruthless power, and big money... "Rock Star" begins with an exclusive, expensive fund-raiser for Governor Jack Highland on the magnificent estate of the ruthlessly powerful and universally feared record magnate Marcus Citroen, and his icy wife, Nova, bringing toget |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Romance - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00001389 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 4.21" W x 6.78" (0.51 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "If you pick up this book, you won't put it down....Collins fans will gobble up Rock Star." --Vogue Three talented, ambitious dreamers live hard and fast in a mind-bending whirl of parties, drugs, and sex--desperately seeking rock and roll superstardom and they'll do anything and anyone to get it. There's English rocker Kris Phoenix, who's been chasing the dream since he was a teen. Then there's soul superstar Bobby Mondella. The former child star lost his money, fame, and eyesight practically overnight, but now he's ready to bask in the limelight. Finally, there's lounge-singer Rafaella. She's endured a string of terrible tragedies that could have broken her but instead fueled her to propel beyond her past and her dysfunctional marriage, and soar to the top. All three hopefuls are hopelessly connected by the powerful music industry magnate Marcus Citrogen and his devious wife Nova, and soon learn that the price of fame may a bit too high in this pure adrenaline ride of a story that will that satisfy readers as only a book by Jackie Collins can! |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Jackie: - There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. The iconic British author has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the director Louis Malle and "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair. With millions of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-one New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world's top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood move studios; from glittering rock concerts in London to the yachts of Russian billionaires, Jackie Collins chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. "I write about real people in disguise," she once said. "If anything, my characters are toned down--the truth is much more bizarre!" Her first novel, The World is Full of Married Men, was published in 1968 and established Collins as an author who dared to step where no other female writers had gone before. She followed it year after year with one successful title after another, including Chances, the first installment of a sprawling nine-book saga introducing the street-smart, sexy, and dynamic Lucky Santangelo. The eighties saw Jackie hitting her stride with the seminal blockbuster, Hollywood Wives, as well as Lucky, Hollywood Husbands, and Rock Star. In recent years she kept fans entertained with Poor Little Bitch Girl, The Power Trip, and her final novel, The Santagelos, never wavering on her commitment to take her readers on a "wild ride"! Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV and Universal Pictures has recently optioned the Santangelo series with a view to bringing Lucky to the big screen. Jackie was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England in 2013 for her services to literature and charity. When accepting the honor she said to the Queen, "Not bad for a school drop-out"--a revelation capturing her belief that both passion and determination can lead to big dreams coming true. Jackie Collins lived in Beverly Hills where she had a front row seat to the lives she so accurately captured in her compulsive plotlines. She was a creative force, a trailblazer for women in fiction and in her own words "A kick-ass writer!" |