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Valley of the dolls paperback7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And even though the message which is encapsulated is that you should tiptoe past the medicine cabinet, the book has been written in the attempt to keep you awake in a numbed sort of condition. But they go through a lot- fag husbands, abortions, stomach pumps, sleep cures, cancer, adultery you name it, they've had it. Then there's SEX, and actually not in some time has there been quite so much femme- styled exposure it's so overstimulated that no wonder these girls need pills. The girls make it Jen as a European sex goddess whose mammary equipment is unbeatable Neely in Hollywood- she can sing too and Anne, quiet, nice Anne who is always in love with one man who picks her up and puts her down, in television. All three girls start out together in New York and for a few pages it promises to be a Xeroxed copy of Rona Jaffe (without the style). Before the book is over, and it's told in spansule form over some twenty years, Jon has committed suicide Neely who has worked her way up to fifty a day dissolved in Scotch, has been in and out of the ""funny farm"" and Anne is just working her way through her first prescription. The dolls of the title are barbiturates, seconal is red, nembutal yellow, and amytal emerald green, and they seem to be one of the occupational inevitabilities of show business. ![]()
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