Three ambitious women chase fame in New York and Hollywood, propped up by pills and worn down by the men around them.
Books that mention Valley of the Dolls (3)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: “They had only one actual book in English which would be placed in a Tralfamadorian museum. It was Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “All my ideas about being a young woman at work came from Valley of the Dolls.”
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid: “I took the diploma out of its case and I folded it up and I used it, like a bookmark, in my copy of Valley of the Dolls.”