Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Judith Krantz
• Title: Mistral's Daughter
• Publisher: ‎ Crown Publishers, Inc. (1982)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 531 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0517549069
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0517549063
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.75 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.5 x 2.0 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (shows some discoloration on pages / page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (shows some discoloration on spine and inside front covers)

Synopsis:

They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man—Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all.

Maggy: Flamboyant mistress of  Mistral’s youth, the toast of Paris in the‘20s.  Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the  paintings that made Mistral legendary.

Teddy: Maggy’s daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral’s dazzling love child.

Fauve: Mistral's daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love.

From the ‘20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York’s sizzling new modeling agencies of the ‘50s, to the model ward of the‘70s,  Mistral's Daughter captures the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion. Judith Krantz has given us a glittering international tale as spellbinding as her other celebrated bestsellers, Scruples, Princess Daisy, I'll Take  Manhattan, Till We Meet Again,  Scruples Two,  Dazzle, and Lovers.

About the Author:

Judith Krantz (née Tarcher; January 9, 1928 – June 22, 2019) was a magazine writer and fashion editor who turned to fiction as she approached the age of 50.

Her first novel Scruples (1978) quickly became a New York Times best-seller and went on to be a worldwide publishing success, translated into 50 languages. Scruples, which describes the glamorous and affluent world of high fashion in Beverly Hills, California, helped define a new supercharged sub-genre of the romance novel – the bonkbuster or "sex-and-shopping" novel.

She also fundamentally changed the publishing industry by becoming one of the first celebrity authors through her extensive touring and promotion – "a superstar of fiction". Her later books included Princess Daisy (1980), Till We Meet Again (1988), Dazzle (1990) and Spring Collection (1996). Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000.

Krantz served on the advisory board of Compassion & Choices, an organization dedicated to providing choices for the dying. In 2006, she joined the Board of the Los Angeles Music Center.

Krantz's husband, Steve Krantz, died in 2007 of pneumonia. The couple had two sons, Tony Krantz and Nicholas Krantz, both of whom reside in the Los Angeles area. Krantz was the sister-in-law of children's entertainer and television host Shari Lewis, who was married to Krantz's brother, Jeremy P. Tarcher, publisher of nonfiction books on health, psychology and New Age spirituality. Jeremy's daughter, Krantz's niece, is entertainer Mallory Lewis.

Krantz died on June 22, 2019, at her home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.