Product Overview
Lovers is pure Krantz, anintoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and foundamong women and men who lure each other with potentcombinations of money, talent, ambition, andpassion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini,the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature whogrew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two.Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new LosAngeles advertising agency, with her creative teammate, David Melville, a brilliant youngart director who joins her in seeking newaccounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke,humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficultbeauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famedMillicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband AngusCaldwell, owns one of New York's largestadvertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian andan enormously successful mall builder, attempts tocapture Gigi's quicksilver affections, althoughhis fierce contenders for the same prize includeboth David Melville and the dominating film director,Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop IkehornOrsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroineof Scruples, and her new husband,the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy withtheir own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father,canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her bestfriend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom canbe forgotten from Scruples andScruples Two. Loverscompletes all the stories set in motion in thefirst two novels, yet it stands entirely on its ownas a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983and 1984.
