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Olivia Goldsmith (1949–2004)

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Author Olivia Goldsmith was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey in 1949. She attended New York University and became one of the first partners at the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in New York. After she divorced her husband, she moved to London, changed her legal name to näytä lisää Justine Rendal, and became a writer. Her 1992 debut novel, "The First Wives Club" became a best-seller and was made into a movie in 1996. In her stories, there's a transformation of the main character and, according to Goldsmith, "In the Olivian universe, everybody gets what they deserve." Besides novels, she wrote articles for The New York Times and Cosmopolitan and wrote children's books under the name Justine Rendal. She received the Woman of Vision Award in 1997. She died from complications related to anesthesia on January 15, 2004 at the age of 54 (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Hylättyjen vaimojen kerho (1992) 1,075 kappaletta
The Bestseller (1996) 381 kappaletta
Bad Boy (2001) 375 kappaletta
Nuoret vaimot (1997) 360 kappaletta
Switcheroo (1998) 326 kappaletta
Insiders (2002) 281 kappaletta
Dumping Billy (2003) 271 kappaletta
Marrying Mom (1996) 256 kappaletta
Flavor of the Month (1993) 231 kappaletta
Fashionably Late (1994) 217 kappaletta
Wish Upon a Star (2004) 102 kappaletta
3× Olivia Goldsmith (2005) 13 kappaletta
Marrying Mom/Fashionably Late (2000) 13 kappaletta
Simple vengeance (2000) 8 kappaletta

Associated Works

The First Wives Club [1996 film] (1996) — Novel — 208 kappaletta

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Fiction woman loses weight plastic surgery, Name that Book (heinäkuu 2015)

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Don't get mad. Get everything.
When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models.
Over lunch one day they form the First Wives Club. But this is no support group. This is the SAS in Chanel. Painstakingly, inexorably, they plan the downfall of the men who've wrecked their lives - and know that revenge has never tasted sweeter...


Each woman, united in their being spurned by their husbands - often for younger models - and having been to school together, come together after the fourth of their group commits suicide. They then conive to get back all that they think they deserve, having contributed much to their husbands' current way of living.

Much better than the film, (which I dont remember having Diane Keaton's daughter being Down Syndrome, or Goldie Hawn's aging actress being a dignified near 60 year old dypso getting a younger boyfriend, or Bette Midler ending up as a middle aged lesbian) the book is a little harder and edgier - and covers some subjects that mid 90s Hollywood is clearly not ready for.
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nordie | 18 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 14, 2023 |
Not bad, though found some of the secondary characters were light and poorly defined
 
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nordie | 13 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Oct 14, 2023 |
Annie, Brenda y Elise. Tres mujeres de mediana edad. Tienen historias distintas, distintos caracteres, pero algo en común: las tres fueron abandonadas por sus respectivos maridos. Todas tuvieron que ver cómo aquellos a quienes ayudaron a triunfar las abandonaban por mujeres más jóvenes. Ahora, ha nacido El club de las primeras..., ellos pueden empezar a tremblar poque sólo a los fuertes se les hace justicia.
 
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Natt90 | 18 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 22, 2023 |
Es sabido que la vida en pareja no es fácil, pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando las relaciones idílicas se van irremisiblemente por el desagüe? ¿Qué actitud adoptan las esposas cuando comprueban que han sido engañadas, utilizadas y humilladas?
Kam, locamente enamorada de su marido, un hombre vanidoso y arrogante, descubre que éste le es alegremente infiel con su mejor amiga.
Vivian cree que su matrimonio es maravilloso, rebosante de romanticismo y felicidad. Hasta que descubre la cara oculta de su príncipe azul.
Jada está casada con un holgazán y tiene que mantener a toda la familia, y encima la llevan a juicio por abandono de hogar.
Las tres mujeres se hacen íntimas amigas y juntas deciden cobrarse una terrible venganza...
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Natt90 | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 10, 2023 |

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