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A legendary masterpiece a story of money and power, sex and death jonas cord coveted his fathers fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife. The average bodiceripper has more, and more explicit, sex. Bosley crowthers putdown in the new york times was a typical response. Harold robbins, american author credited with popularizing a prurient style of massmarket fiction that traded on the public appetite for tales of profligate hollywood stars and glamorous criminals. The carpetbaggers ebook by harold robbins rakuten kobo.
The carpetbaggers by harold robbins a readable copy. I read tons of books like this when i was in my thirties, raising my sons and dreaming of adventure. The prequel nevada smith 1966 was also based on a character in the novel. Author robbins has set the plot of the book in hollywood, california. The book was said, for example, to contain the first act of fellatio ever in a. When his father died, jonas swore to possess them all. Robbins hits all the tropes of a big fat trashy page turner. Harold robbins was born in new york city on may 21, 1916. Harold robbins by andrew wilson books the guardian. As a teen, he led a group of four friends to beat a local bully to death and let someone else take the rap. The carpetbaggers has the outsize awfulness of holly wood at its worst, multiplied by a large cast and much supposedly shocking action that clearly comes from the much more outspoken novel. But rina marlow was the celebrated screen goddess no man could. The main characters of this fiction, thriller story are. On one of the star trek feature films spock refers to jacqueline susann and harold robbins from his vantage point in the future as the old masters of 20th century earth literature.
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