BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL “Fame destroys. Dreams become nightmares. Money corrodes. Rich men are pigs. Solid middle-class men are boring. Country life is stifling. Big cities are snake pits. Nobody is nice. Everyone is a mess. It is, in other words, the perfect mirror for today’s culture,” says Simon Doonan, the creative-ambassador-at-large at Barneys, in Vanity Fair, referring to Grove Press’s new edition of Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls 50th-anniversary edition. To date, 31 million copies have been sold.
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