I’ll Take Manhattan/ Mistral’s Daughter by Judith Krantz

I’LL TAKE MANHATTAN: Here is Judith Krantz’s greatest triumph–I’ll Take Manhattan. In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, she weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character–sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed.

Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment–until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father’s magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power.

Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B –the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.

MISTRAL’S DAUGHTER: They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man–Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy–Flamboyant mistress of Mistral’s youth, the toast of Paris in the ’20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy–Maggy’s daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral’s dazzling love child. Fauve–Mistral’s daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the ’20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York’s sizzling new modeling agencies of the ’50s, to the model ward of the ’70s, Mistral’s Daughter captures the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion