Chariots in the Bedroom
The Crazy Ladies is cut from the same cloth as Jacqueline Suzanne’s Valley of the Dolls, a book that broke some previous assumptions about popular fiction. Before then, romances written by women and read generally by women, were reticent about sex. Valley attracted a whole motherlode of readers who relished reading a woman writing about women who get it on. Gwen Davis (The Pretenders, etc.) is of the same school. Joyce Elbert, who has three or four books besides The Crazy Ladies, is of the school’s second generation. So successful has the idea been that there is now a third generation...
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