Olivia Goldsmith (1949–2004)
Auteur de Le club des ex - la revanche des premieres epouses
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Olivia Goldsmith
Simple Isn't Easy: How to Find Your Personal Style and Look Fantastic Every Day! (1995) 64 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Goldfield, Randy (birth name)
Goldfield, Justine
Rendal, Justine - Date de naissance
- 1949-01-01
- Date de décès
- 2004-01-15
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Dumont, New Jersey, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Dumont, New Jersey, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA - Études
- New York University
- Professions
- writer
management consultant - Organisations
- Booz Allen Hamilton
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Not bad, though found some of the secondary characters were light and poorly defined
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.
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...… (plus d'informations)
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...… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 21
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 3,980
- Popularité
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- Évaluation
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- ISBN
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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.
… (plus d'informations)