Dazzle by Judith Krantz

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Judith Krantz
• Title: Dazzle
• Publisher: ‎ Crown Publishers, Inc.; First Edition (November 5, 1990)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 502 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0517575019
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0517575017
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.75 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.6 x 9.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (shows some minor markings / discoloration on inside cover and page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (shows some minor wear on bottom corner)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Now, Judith Krantz, best-selling author of Scruples, Mistral’s Daughter, and Till We Meet Again, invites you into the luscious, monied world of Jazz Kilkullen, her most daring, provocative, impetuous heroine yet. 

Inside the fun-filled photographers’ studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world.

But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father’s vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess . . . and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything. 

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.