Description for SCRUPLES by Judith Krantz: "Scruples" is the novel that created publishing history, the first-and widely acknowledged to be the very best-novel ever written about the staggeringly luxurious life of a Beverly Hills boutique and the people who work in it. "Scruples" was translated into twenty languages and made Rodeo Drive famous around the world. "The New York Post" said that ""Scruples" was born to be a smash bestseller. . . It has more inside information about the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood than you'd find in a dozen manuals." With "Scruples," Judith Krantz earned her reputation as a blazingly talented and original storyteller. She takes her readers behind the scenes of wealth and fame to show them the real people and the real emotions that exist at the core of even the most high-powered lives. "Scruples" is the leader of her #1 best-selling novels. The spellbinding story of the rise of a fascinating woman from fat, unhappy "poor relative" of an aristocratic Boston family to a unique position among the super-beautiful and super-rich, a woman who got everything she wanted---fame, wealth, power and love.
