Star Country - Softcover

Robinson, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804115516 ISBN 13: 9780804115513

Publisher: Ivy Books, 1997

Synopsis

"FASCINATING . . . The themes of love, fame, ambition and greed keep the plot spinning nicely."
--Publishers Weekly

Alex Zachary has Hollywood in her blood. So when the legendary movie studio that her family lost comes up for sale, Alex vows to acquire it. But Alex's ex-husband (and old family rival), Rick Stone, has offered his own blockbuster bid for VLI. And soon ambition to run VLI and revenge against Rick are vying with the most important man in Alex's heart: her soulmate and longtime love, superstar Kingston Ryder. . . .

"Jill Robinson has a knack for the beautifully constructed sentence: Her new novel, STAR COUNTRY, propelled me through the world of power and privilege, Hollywood style, with the total assurance of one who has been there herself."
--Dominick Dunne

"Nobody knows Hollywood like Jill Robinson."
--John Lahr

About this title

About the Author:

This is Jill Robinson's seventh book. Her father, Dore Schary, onetime head of MGM, was the only writer to run a studio. Robinson has won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, has written for The New York Times, Vogue in America and Paris, and Cosmopolitan, and has hosted a controversial talk show on KLAC in Los Angeles. A contributing editor to Travel and Leisure, Robinson lives in London.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Robinson's seventh book is a New Hollywood sequel to Perdido (1978) in which the follies of the older generation continue to provide the best dirt. Recalled from London to L.A. by the drive-by shooting of her best friend, journalist Kate Alder Stone, Alexandra Zachary, normally happy heading her independent production company abroad, can't help chafing under the news that Victor Levanin International (VLI), the studio her great-grandfather founded and his heirs grandly squandered, is once again on the block. Alex's need to share the news of Kate's death with her lifelong love, Oscared leading man King Ryder, has already put him back in her Rolodex again. Also back in her life, if not between her sheets, is her despicable ex Rick Stone, powerful head of rival studio SMS, the man she married on the rebound from King's marriage, and the one who left her with a precocious daughter but not a single good memory. When Rick confirms the rumor that he's the leading suitor for VLI, Alex grows determined to outbid his billion- dollar offer, even though it means going hat in hand to her remote parents, her buddies in the business, and her actress friend Polo Montana's husband Baron Solder Task, the German Ted Turner. But how can Alex ever raise all that money in time to beat Rick when there are so many limos to take, so many childhood traumas to recall, so many pithy apothegms about Old Hollywood to recycle (``You knew if you had presence by five. By seven you were on to your best angles. . . .''), so many names to drop with a clatter (``You had an amazing childhood; you met the Kennedys, Paul Newman, Toni Morrison, Martin Luther King, danced with Gene Kelly. . . . You've been in the greatest private projection rooms in the world'')? Kate's death, by the way, will turn out to be no casual accident, unlike almost everything else in this gaspingly star- struck dinosaur, whose DNA seems to have been preserved in amber ever since the studio era. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0804115516
• ISBN 13: 9780804115513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 10