Dolores (Susann novel)

Dolores (Susann novel)

Dolores (1976) is Jacqueline Susann's last novel. She supposedly modeled the character of Dolores after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (unconfirmed).

It is the intense, tragic story of Dolores Ryan, the beautiful and fashionable young widow of an assassinated American President. After his death, Dolores finds herself too poor to sustain her extravagant tastes and too lonely to be fulfilled as a woman. The novel details her quest for money and for men. (Ref: Fantasic Fiction website: [1].

Published by Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-20958-2 and Transworld Publishers Limited, ISBN 0-552-10538-4


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