Scruples by Judith Krantz

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Judith Krantz
• Title: Scruples
• Publisher: ‎ Crown Publishers, Inc. (1978)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 478 pages
• ISBN-10: 0517532530
• ISBN-13: 978-0517532539‏
• Item Weight : ‎ 1.3 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.3 x 8.75 inches
• Book Condition: Like New – Excellent (Rare / Collectible)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent / Near Perfect

Synopsis:

Scruples is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it.

Scruples was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. With Scruples, Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. She takes her readers behind the scenes of wealthy and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives.

Scruples is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels.

Played out against the opulence of Beverly Hills, the elegance of Paris, the ruthless worlds of high fashion and international movie-making, this is the story of Billy Ikehorn and her metamorphosis into one of the world's most desirable women.

Once she had been the desperately unhappy and unattractive daughter of a reclusive doctor, the "poor relation" in an aristocratic Boston family.

Now, she was beautiful, glamorous, and sought after…and she gloried in it. Unleashing her long-pent-up passion, Billy moved from one man to the next until she found Ellis Ikehorn, nearly forty years her senior and ruler of a vast industrial empire.

At their villa on the French Riviera, their apartment in Paris, or their vineyard estate in California, Billy learned to forget the pain of her past. Their happiness was total but brief. After five ecstatic years, Billy was alone once more. To fill the growing, dreadful void, she created Scruples, a playland specialty shop where the rich could indulge their most lavish desires.

For some, Scruples was the beginning of a dream come true-for Billy, it was the first step toward finding her real self and her desires.

With penetrating insight and shocking detail, Judith Krantz intimately evokes the public and private worlds of the super wealthy, the ambitious, and the talented. A keen observer and a brilliant storyteller, she vividly portrays the raw sexuality, the needs and the drives of the world's most beautiful people.

An important contribution to an immensely popular genre, Scruples will leave millions of readers breathlessly awaiting the next Judith Krantz novel.

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.