Love & Desire & Hate

by Joan Collins

Book Overview

Author of Prime Time, superstar Collins is back with a hornet's nest of romance, envy, lust and revenge (Kirkus). Murderous secrets and desperate passions shape the lives of those working on the movie... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B002BVPPII
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Linden Press : Simon & Schuster
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.

Customer Reviews

LOVED IT

I read this book in 2003, and i loved every word, and every page...this book is long, but i never wanted the stories to end...I felt like I was in a mini-soap opera. I laughed, I cryed, I became angry. This book captivated my mind. Each era that Joan Collins depicts, you the reader feel like you are in that part of era yourself.

A gem of a novel to be revisited again and again

I love this book! I first read it, no, utterly devoured it, when it was published a decade ago. I was 17 at the time and was supposed to be studying another novel for English class (a novel, it is fair to say, of a different, more classical caliber) - decidedly an element which made me feel I was being just a little bit wicked for reading it. Not that Love & Desire & Hate needs any added spice. Mainly set in the post-World War II Hollywood and British film industry - Collins has dealt with the setting in a highly convincing manner - it had everything I wanted in a juicy read: a lusty leading man reminiscent of Ronald Colman (but with more than a touch of Errol Flynn), a French beauty with a tumultuous past in occupied France, a young starlet-nymphomanic, and an emotionally scarred woman with haunting, tragic memories, bent on vengence and desire. And those are only some of the scandalous and evil characters you will meet in this dishy "potboiler". A long-standing fan of Joan's sister, Jackie , I defintely say - without a doubt - that Love & Desire & Hate equals anything she wrote, perhaps surpassing it, the tone being more "romantic soap opera" than "hard-core Hollywood". It has a delightfully colorful cast, foreboding atmosphere, and thrilling suspense. Once you have read it, you won't soon forget it.