![]() Susann examines the female orgasm, menstruation and even lesbianism with the frankness we now associate with women’s blogs. The trio seeks fame and get hooked on prescription pills in the two decades following the second world war in a way that made the novel particularly progressive about sex. ![]() The plot follows three archetypal showbiz girls: beautiful, well-bred Anne Welles brassy, talented Neely O’Hara and sexy, pragmatic Jennifer North. Some parts of the book have aged well, it’s true. These marketing lines are, at best, exaggerations. In his introduction to the new edition, the writer and Barneys creative ambassador Simon Doonan judges it “the perfect mirror for today’s culture”. ![]() “Every year it reasserts its relevance,” the author’s 33-year-old step-grandson Whitney Robinson told the New York Times this winter. ![]()
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