--- product_id: 43237075 title: "Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition" price: "€ 37.21" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/43237075-valley-of-the-dolls-50th-anniversary-edition store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition **Price:** € 37.21 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition - **How much does it cost?** € 37.21 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/43237075-valley-of-the-dolls-50th-anniversary-edition) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The 50th Anniversary Edition of Jacqueline Susann's All-Time Pop-Culture Classic The perfect gift for any Valley fan or your favorite Doll, featuring a new cover design • introduction by Simon Doonan • never-before-seen archival material • an essay from Jackie, “My Book Is Not Dirty!” At a time when women were destined to become housewives, Jacqueline Susann let us dream. Anne, Neely, and Jennifer become best friends as struggling young women in New York City trying to make their mark. Eventually, they climb their way to the top of the entertainment industry only to find that there’s no place left to go but down, into the Valley of the Dolls . Review: Rambling, operatic and much more than "Chick Lit" - On the back of the book, there is a quote by a reviewer who spouts that most tired of cliches "I literally couldn't put it down" or something liked that. For once, I'd have to agree wholeheartedly - 450 pages and never a dull moment. The prose is lively, sensitive and articulate. The story itself - the trials and tribulations of three women in the entertainment industry over a 20 year period - captivating and engaging. Also dug the way Susann rejects explicit sex scenes and places sexual/personal politics in its place. Makes the whole thing far more believable and realistic (plus her ability to write 'romantic' scenes is more cheesy than sexual as the few ill-advised attempts here seem to confirm). Actually, Valley Of The Dolls (the book, not the film) reminded me of Goodfellas in a way which may sound like a bizarre comparison but it has that same quasi-documentary feel, a whirlwind tour of 20 years in the lives of a small microcosm of people. Like the Scorsese masterpiece, significant events occur, are pondered briefly and then swiftly forgotten in a heady rush to get to the end of the gals' glamorous/sordid lives. If there are drawbacks, it's to do with inconsistent characterisations. People's personas suddenly change totally at various points in the book and at times you feel as though you're dealing with a totally different person. Also, Susann doesn't seem to like her characters equally, or she starts with a concept about them (Jennifer) and gets bored midway through and ceases to bother developing them after a while. Of the three main characters, it's clearly Neely who seems to interest Susann most and she gets quite deeply into her. But I think it's at the expense of the other characters and does weaken the novel if we were to look at it from a technical standpoint (which I don't). On the plus side, super-tuff ending! Why don't we ever get stuff like this in the movies!?! Very dark and downbeat, again giving it a more realistic tinge. Finally, don't dismiss this as chick lit or proto-feminism etc or whatever crass marketing terms are currently in vogue to describe writing by women. This is a great novel in its own right and just cos its written by a girl doesn't necessarily mean its FOR girls. Women may be the central characters in this tale of the ups and downs of the post-war showbiz world, but ultimately, it's a book about people. So read it, everyone! Review: You Can't Beat It With A Stick - VALLEY OF THE DOLLS was old news by the time I got around to it in the late 1970s. Even though I was then in my late teens my ultra-respectable mother disapproved of me reading it--but one day, when I left the book open on the coffee table, I came in to find my mother engrossed in it and she wouldn't give it back until she had read it cover to cover. From time to time I asked what she thought about it. "VULGAR TRASH!" she would say. She read every word. You couldn't have beaten her off that book with a stick! Now, some reviewers try to attach high-flown interpretations to this novel, and some of those intrepretations may even have a little validity. But the real reason any one reads VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is because it really IS vulgar trash--and even now, more than thirty years later and although there are much more explicit novels available, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS remains the BEST vulgar-trash-novel going. Jacqueline Susann wasn't much of a writer but she was a born storyteller, and her heavy-handed style suits this story of three lovely young women who hit post-WWII New York with innocent dreams and ambitions--only to become victims of a meat-grinder entertainment industry, too much sleeping around with the wrong men, and pill-popping hell. In the process, Susann unexpectedly creates a surprisingly effective social document of the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s--a period in which women's roles underwent a profound change. Susann, who knew the New York entertainment scene inside out, based many of her characters on real people (does any one out there NOT know that Neely O'Hara is based on Judy Garland and Helen Lawson based on Ethel Merman?), and that makes the novel even more fun to read. But you don't have to play guessing games to enjoy the book: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is loud, brash, common, brazen, vulgar trash that you simply cannot put down. Over the passing years I've read it at least three times. And my mother read it twice! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #18,567 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #354 in Classic Literature & Fiction #857 in Literary Fiction (Books) #3,017 in American Literature (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,026 Reviews | ## Images ![Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51M9iIaeV6L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rambling, operatic and much more than "Chick Lit" *by M***R on August 3, 2007* On the back of the book, there is a quote by a reviewer who spouts that most tired of cliches "I literally couldn't put it down" or something liked that. For once, I'd have to agree wholeheartedly - 450 pages and never a dull moment. The prose is lively, sensitive and articulate. The story itself - the trials and tribulations of three women in the entertainment industry over a 20 year period - captivating and engaging. Also dug the way Susann rejects explicit sex scenes and places sexual/personal politics in its place. Makes the whole thing far more believable and realistic (plus her ability to write 'romantic' scenes is more cheesy than sexual as the few ill-advised attempts here seem to confirm). Actually, Valley Of The Dolls (the book, not the film) reminded me of Goodfellas in a way which may sound like a bizarre comparison but it has that same quasi-documentary feel, a whirlwind tour of 20 years in the lives of a small microcosm of people. Like the Scorsese masterpiece, significant events occur, are pondered briefly and then swiftly forgotten in a heady rush to get to the end of the gals' glamorous/sordid lives. If there are drawbacks, it's to do with inconsistent characterisations. People's personas suddenly change totally at various points in the book and at times you feel as though you're dealing with a totally different person. Also, Susann doesn't seem to like her characters equally, or she starts with a concept about them (Jennifer) and gets bored midway through and ceases to bother developing them after a while. Of the three main characters, it's clearly Neely who seems to interest Susann most and she gets quite deeply into her. But I think it's at the expense of the other characters and does weaken the novel if we were to look at it from a technical standpoint (which I don't). On the plus side, super-tuff ending! Why don't we ever get stuff like this in the movies!?! Very dark and downbeat, again giving it a more realistic tinge. Finally, don't dismiss this as chick lit or proto-feminism etc or whatever crass marketing terms are currently in vogue to describe writing by women. This is a great novel in its own right and just cos its written by a girl doesn't necessarily mean its FOR girls. Women may be the central characters in this tale of the ups and downs of the post-war showbiz world, but ultimately, it's a book about people. So read it, everyone! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You Can't Beat It With A Stick *by G***R on March 7, 2002* VALLEY OF THE DOLLS was old news by the time I got around to it in the late 1970s. Even though I was then in my late teens my ultra-respectable mother disapproved of me reading it--but one day, when I left the book open on the coffee table, I came in to find my mother engrossed in it and she wouldn't give it back until she had read it cover to cover. From time to time I asked what she thought about it. "VULGAR TRASH!" she would say. She read every word. You couldn't have beaten her off that book with a stick! Now, some reviewers try to attach high-flown interpretations to this novel, and some of those intrepretations may even have a little validity. But the real reason any one reads VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is because it really IS vulgar trash--and even now, more than thirty years later and although there are much more explicit novels available, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS remains the BEST vulgar-trash-novel going. Jacqueline Susann wasn't much of a writer but she was a born storyteller, and her heavy-handed style suits this story of three lovely young women who hit post-WWII New York with innocent dreams and ambitions--only to become victims of a meat-grinder entertainment industry, too much sleeping around with the wrong men, and pill-popping hell. In the process, Susann unexpectedly creates a surprisingly effective social document of the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s--a period in which women's roles underwent a profound change. Susann, who knew the New York entertainment scene inside out, based many of her characters on real people (does any one out there NOT know that Neely O'Hara is based on Judy Garland and Helen Lawson based on Ethel Merman?), and that makes the novel even more fun to read. But you don't have to play guessing games to enjoy the book: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is loud, brash, common, brazen, vulgar trash that you simply cannot put down. Over the passing years I've read it at least three times. And my mother read it twice! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic Allegory with a Modern Twist *by P***E on June 17, 2012* The thing that frustrates me about this book is also what I love - The allegory and the emotional blindness of the characters. Warning, spoilers! Anne is living a real "three strikes and you're out" psychological baseball game. She seeks excitement and love. She blows it with Allen, who's loaded and crazy about her, who offers all kinds of fun, whatever she could want. Yet she blows it because it's too easy. When Lyon finally wants to marry her and be with her, since he wants to live in her simple home town, it isn't good enough. She blows it. Then, when she has Kevin, who agrees to marry her and wants to take her around the world, it's not good enough because he's offering it too easily, and Lyon stumbles back in the picture. Yet, she never really does anything on her own; she just piggybacks off the success of others and never grows out of being a spoiled, cossetted teenager. Neely is just as emotionally crippled. She finds a man to love her, like she wants, but Neely's vision of love from the start means being with a man that's more successful. As her fame grows, her love wanes for her men. Yet she demands constant attention. She's a true diva, and she can never hold onto anything. Neely does not know how to love, only how to be addicted. From the start, we see she's selfish and incapable of being considerate of others. She never learns, and even though the novel doesn't exactly indicate how Neely's future will look, we can guess, and it's not pretty. Jennifer perhaps was the only really good, likable character in the novel. However, she's ultimately betrayed by her own body that she's relied on. Perhaps, if she'd learned to make emotional connections, we would have seen a happier ending. I wonder how the novel would have turned out if Anne would have tried to get to know Allen as a person, if Neely would have let her first man be a man and stayed in NYC, and Jennifer would have told her mother to stuff it and gone to live the life SHE wanted. Would have been less interesting, but I can't help wishing one girl would have gone straight and come to her senses. It's a fun novel and a great read. This book does not discourage success, but it does discourage riding on other people's backs to get there, and is a great lesson about using people and stepping on people, that it still hurts you even if you have good intentions. It's a tale about what happens when you forget about the humanity of the people you're using, that in that, you lose your own humanity. It's a beautiful, sad, timeless story, and I can't wait to read more Susann! ## Frequently Bought Together - Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition - The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) - The Virgin Suicides: A Novel (Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) (Picador Modern Classics, 2) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/43237075-valley-of-the-dolls-50th-anniversary-edition](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/43237075-valley-of-the-dolls-50th-anniversary-edition) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-08-12*