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The Love Machine

Published
Jan 1969
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General Fiction General Fiction
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The spectacular bestseller from the author of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS. 

 In a time when steak, vodka, and Benzedrine were the three main staples of a healthy diet, when high-powered executives called each other "baby" and movie stars wore wigs to bed, network tycoons had a name for the TV set: they called it "the love machine." But to supermodel Amanda, socialite Judith and journalist Maggie, "the love machine" meant something else: Robin Stone, "a TV-network titan around whom women flutter like so many moths…The novel deals with his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene (orgying in London, transvestiting in Hamburg), drinks unlimited quantities and checks out the latest Nielsens."—Newsweek 


"I READ IT IN ONE GREEDY GULP, ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE."—Liz Smith 


"[Susann's] pulp poetry resonates to this day. WITH HER FORMULA OF SEX, DRUGS, AND SHOW BUSINESS, Susann didn't so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict the Zeitgeist of ours."—Detour

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First Edition Oct 1998 Time Warner (UK) ISBN13 9780751523720 ISBN10 0751523720
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Dec 1997 Grove Press ISBN13 9780802135445 ISBN10 0802135447
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Jan 1969 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671202279 ISBN10 0671202278
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