Lady Boss, Jackie Collins
Lady Boss, Jackie Collins
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Lady Boss

Author: Jackie Collins

Narrator: Jackie Collins

Abridged: 2 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/1990


Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story!

The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and Lucky—returns, and this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly clever Lucky is out to conquer Hollywood!

In Chances Lucky grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky, she was married three times. And now, in Lady Boss, she takes on Hollywood and wins!

Panther Studios is the prize and Lucky wants it. In her quest for power she meets adversaries and enemies, friends and betrayers. And her relationship with her husband, charismatic comedian and movie star, Lennie Golden is put to the test.

Lucky's first challenge is to buy the only movie studio still not controlled by a powerful conglomerate—Panther Studios, owned by the retired, irascible, old Abe Panther. But Abe won't sell his beloved studio to Lucky until she proves she has the guts to make it in Hollywood. It's his idea that she disguise herself as a secretary and go in undercover to find out what's really going on. It's a challenge that also satisfies Lucky's passion for adventure—and her desire to take chances.

In the process, Lucky uncovers a world of financial scheming, big-time betrayal, and bizarre sex. When Lucky makes her final move, assuming the role of Lady Boss at Panther Studios, she stuns the entire industry and sets off a series of shock waves, not only threatening her marriage to Lennie, but unleashing the hatred of crime boss Carlos Bonnatti—a hatred that goes back generations, putting her life, and the lives of everyone close to her, in danger…

​Bringing back one of her most intriguing and endearing characters, Lucky Santangelo, Jackie Collins shows once again that she is the unquestioned queen of glamorous fiction.

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

Goodreads review by Diane on July 07, 2017

Great series! interesting,entertaining,intuitive storyline that the author even took the time to add many of the same characters from previous series..nice storytelling as always (paperback!)......more

Goodreads review by Ayesha on May 29, 2013

I'm not even ashamed to give this Jackie Collins novel a 5 star along with writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Why, you ask? Because 20 years ago, when I picked up my first JC novel, as a freshman in high school, this filth lured me into a love for the written word. I read every one of her......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on March 04, 2015

Still the very best book I have ever read. The book that makes me feel like women can be powerful creatures. Read this a very long time ago but I still love this book.......more

Goodreads review by MasterSal on July 15, 2020

So despite me having marked this as read - I don’t recall anything that happens in it. Compare that to book 2 which is still recall - it was one of the first books I sneaked off my parents shelves when I realized that trashy books existed ... Time for a reread methinks.........more

Goodreads review by Vette32 on August 12, 2011

It didn't grab me like Chances and Lucky did. I was tired of hearing about the actors, and nothing seemed to be really happening as I grew tired of waiting for Lucky to come out her disguise (thanks Abe Panther for this ridiculous demand). I'm weary going into the fourth, but I have to finish the se......more