Spring Collection by Judith Krantz

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Judith Krantz
• Title: Spring Collection (I'll Take Manhattan Series)
• Publisher: ‎ Crown Publishers, Inc.; First Edition (March 13, 1996)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 358 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0517593343
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0517593349
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.6 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent (Collectible)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

PASSION…

In a tale as timely as Scruples, as compelling as Dazzle, as intriguing as Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz launches three innocent

beauties on the city of fashion and love….

SCANDAL…

It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management.  Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi–and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract.  But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, is furious.  Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face.

GLAMOUR…

But Justine isn't about to play his game.  She dispatches these three sensational girls–the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead–in care of her second-in-command, fiery, droll Francesca Severino.  Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discovery

and love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life.

SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.

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.