American Star, Jackie Collins
American Star, Jackie Collins
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American Star

Author: Jackie Collins

Narrator: Jackie Collins

Abridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/1993


Synopsis

American Star is a love story of two extraordinary lovers, separated by tragedy, yearning for each other, though seemingly unable to be together ever again.

Nick and Lauren could never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers—he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in town—their love was the town scandal, forbidden, sizzling, and unforgettable. But the whole relationships ends abruptly in tragedy. From that moment, their lives are split and they are sent into separate orbits, perhaps never to reunite.

Nick pursues his dream of acting, and after a series of wild adventures begins the slow rise that will make him one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Meanwhile, Lauren goes to New York and enters the modeling world, surprising everyone with a career that takes off in a direction she never expected. American Star follows them both on their trips to fame, as Nick and Lauren, haunted by the secret they share, try to live without each other—only to find they can't.

A compelling story of love, sex, and murder, set against the glamorous backgrounds of New York and Hollywood, American Star is a story only Jackie Collins can tell.

About Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by Vanity Fair. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-two New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV. Collins 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. She 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!” Her fascinating life as a writer and icon is explored in the CNN Films and Netflix documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. Discover more at JackieCollins.com.


Reviews

My favorite Jackie Collins novel! Nick is a sexy, dirty-talking Hollywood movie star and one of my fave heroes. It's filled with all the usual twists and turns, murder, intrigue, the Hollywood life and sex..definitely a must read.......more

I read this book a few weeks ago when I had grown enormously tired of 'literary' fiction and craved something sleazy, cheap and to-the-point. The sort of book I'd be almost afraid to be spotted reading in public. One of my gripes with quite a bit of literary fiction is it seems to lack a plot. I fin......more

Goodreads review by April

This book was an 'I-just-can't-put-it-down" kind of a read, a first in a long time for me! The story is gritty, evenly paced, and transitions nicely between the characters while neatly tying up most of the loose ends between the stories. The characters are strong and easily imaginable. Collins writi......more

Jackie Collins truly never disappoints. A buddy read with the lovely Carolyn, a re read for me. I always enjoy re reading JC, her books are like going back to old friends.......more