Harold Robbins. The Man Who Invented Sex

London England: Bloomsbury. Harold Robbins - godfather of the airport novel - single-handedly changed the face of publishing with classics such as The Carpetbaggers, The Dream Merchants and The Lonely Lady. Yet his roller-coaster life was even more bizarre than the plots of his compulsive novels. As much a part of the sexual and social revolution as the Pill, Playboy and pot, his book sales exceeded 750 million. But as Robbins embraced the international playboy lifestyle, he reportedly frittered away more than $50 million on fast cars, loose women and high living. Obsessed with fame and fortune, Harold Robbins was a deeply complex and often controversial man. A constant master of self-invention, he remained a mystery, and even his closest friends and lovers could only guess at the man behind the perma-tanned mask and giant mirrored sunglassed. To mark the tenth anniversary of Harold Robbins' death, Andrew Wilson has written the first biography of a man whose obsessional pursuit of success would ultimately lead to his downfall. Illustrated. 312 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 2007.