Books by Elizabeth Gage and Complete Book Reviews
Elizabeth Gage, Author Harlequin $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-503-0
Fans of Gage (Confession) are apt to be divided on her tale of three friends whose pubescent pact of lifelong ""threeness"" defines their lives. In this novel, her prose is uncharacteristically heavy, and the narrative meanders. The action derives...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author Mira Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55166-465-1
In moody prose, Gage (A Glimpse of Stocking) draws us into the unlived life of Rebecca Lowell. Rebecca dotes on her college-age daughter, Dusty, and endures her womanizing lawyer husband, Damon, but her existence has no real savor. When Dusty's...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64429-1
The pseudonymous author of this hefty first novel sensationalizing Hollywood's dark and seamy side initially displays a flair for tall tales, but the narrative loses its credibility entirely by the halfway mark. Lured by the prospect of a screen...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70304-2
In this exuberantly racy romance, Gage ( A Glimpse of Stocking ) details the scandal-ridden mid-20th-century worlds of high society, business, art and politics as she charts the careers of two alluring women born the same night in 1933. Secretive...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author Pocket Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74815-9
In this predictable and superficial tale of greed, passion, incest and revenge during the early days of computer technology, Gage ( A Glimpse of Stocking ) relies heavily on platitudes and little on believable characters. Soon after naive, beautiful
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Elizabeth Gage, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74327-7
This racy romance tracks two women born the same night in 1933: dark, secretive Laura, an acclaimed fashion designer and photographer, and bold, deliciously evil redhead Tess, a corporate climber who makes it big in TV and in Washington. ``Gage is a
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Elizabeth Gage, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-74816-6
This predictable tale of greed, passion, incest and revenge during the early days of computer technology was a Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club selection in cloth. (Dec.)
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Elizabeth Gage, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $22 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-78641-0
The sizzling wit of Gage's bestseller A Glimpse of Stocking is missing in this gushing potboiler about Hollywood in its heyday, the 1930s and '40s. Having left home at age 16 and later escaped a smooth-talking criminal of a husband, Kate Hamilton...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author, Claire Zion, Editor Pocket Books $23 (512p) ISBN 978-0-671-89706-2
Gage's (A Glimpse of Stocking) new novel is a hyperactive rags-to-riches story of three people caught in a web of ambition, passion, deceit and revenge. Having escaped a childhood of poverty to become the head of a business empire and the richest...
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Elizabeth Gage, Author, Claire Zion, Editor, Michael Foxwell, Author Pocket Books $5.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-671-78644-1
This gushing potboiler about Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s is ultimately unconvincing and emotionally flat. (Dec.)
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