But Robbins’s notoriously-loose “plotting” is especially messy in this doorstop of a book, one of his last big sellers, eventually turned into a trashy movie starring Pia Zadora.ĭedicated to Jacqueline Susann, who died before The Lonely Lady was published, the novel sort of takes Susann’s life and trashes it up the heroine, JeriLee Randall, is basically Jackie Susann meets Brigitte Bardot. Well, and every other novel ever written by Harold Robbins. This line of dialog, which appears on page 300 of this paperback edition, aptly sums up The Lonely Lady itself. By the time I finished reading it I was too confused to understand what I had read.”
Every time you turn it you lose the picture.
It’s all open and spread out, like a kaleidoscope.
