![]() ![]() ![]() It has everything, in fact, except an editor's touch, which is amusing since Korda himself is the editor in chief of the very house which, through an affiliate, is publishing the 650-page Queenie.īut a novel packaged as a blockbuster with a huge paperback sale is not insignificant, and predisposed readers may find Queenie's multitude of sins deliciously sinful - the chocolate box of poison that Korda left out of his celebrated Charmed Lives. Queenie, a very thinly disguised portrait of film star Merle Oberon, suffers - or flourishes, depending on your point of view - from ladle after ladle of Hollywood necrophilia and Dallas/Dynasty wish-fulfillment fantasy. ![]() WITH MICHAEL KORDA, nothing succeeds quite like excess. ![]()
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