Pandora's Box

I found this book a real page turner. It's written so you can to really know the characters and theauthor writes in a way that events don't always happen like you expect so there's a lot of suspense.

I had Elizabeth Gage prior this book so I was acquainted with her style of writing and story-telling. Pandora's Box delivered the goods. The story was compelling from start to finish with interesting and interlocking characters, which I like. If there was one thing I would like to see is an updated version of this or something similar in story writing in 2010 or later with similar characters.Loved this bok.

Thank It Got On Time Love It.,💖

Diana is our gay icon! Love the book btw

I read this book and loved it. For me it was not a long book at all, even being 714 or so pages long . I loaned it to a friend and never got it back,but thru' the years I have always reflected upon reading when discussing books, so I decided to get another copy of it. It is my #1 book following Flowers For Algernon, and Just Say No.

Book was good. Was delivered fast

Simon & Schuster did not want Elizabeth Gage. Joni Evans, then the wife of Dick Snyder (who later ran Little Golden Books into the ground, as was reported by Publishers Weekly many times), rejected the book on behalf of S&S. Bill Grose, the head of Pocket Books, somehow got around her, and S&S exercised its topping privilege to win Jay Garon's auction and acquire A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING for $511,500. Garon's contract was a good one: the author retained all rights except North American. With foreign sales, the earnings reached $1.4 million. S&S didn't want Gage because they had Jackie Collins, that great talent, and Judith Michael, the nerdy husband-and-wife writing team. They were also offended that this first novelist from Glenview, Illinois, had so much more talent than their own authors. At a lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Michael Korda and his then special friend Trish Lande tried to get Gage and her husband to change to a writing husband-and-wife team like Judith Michael. Gage and her husband refused. S&S walked out of the Four Seasons while the author was in the ladies' room. Later Korda tried to get Gage to take a lower royalty than the one specified in the contract. Gage refused.After six weeks of pressure. S&S caved. The editing, by a faceless group of editors, was finished, the book was ready to go to press, when Korda turned the script over to Lande, saying "See if you can find anything wrong with this." Lande covered the manuscript with coffee stains and cut out chapters which were crucial to the momentum of the book. In a long-distance conference call to Gage in Hawaii, Korda told her, "You have to make Trish's changes. You have to understand why it is so important that you surrender to us." Gage lectured Korda and Lande over the phone about Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, which which Fitzgerald stops the action to simply give the names of the people who visited West Egg that summer. "My chapters are far more important to the movement of the story than Fitzgerald's Chapter 4." Chastened, furious, Korda said "I guess Trish and I should read those chapters again." In the end the chapters stayed. The book became a New York Times bestseller, But S&S did not forgive. They withdrew Gage's second novel, Pandora's Box, from the stores after one week "for lack of interest." Jay Garon, furious, moved Gage to Pocket Books, where she received big advances but zero promotion. As a result, Gage never became a brand name novelist, but her five novels for S&S/Pocket and her two books for Mira remain cult classics with avid fans around the world. Her unique combination of violence, sex, and psychological depth set her far above the Krantzes and Collinses and Bradfords of the writing world.Meanwhile, Gage went on to write novels under other pseudonyms which made a great deal of money and won publishing awards. She is now a literary novelist whose real identity is not known, and who doesn't have any problems paying the bills.The reviews of PANDORA on this page leave little doubt about its quality. For those who admire it (Gage thought it was her best romantic book), remember what S&S did to it in 1990. As Proust said, "A good book will make its own audience." Eat your heart out, Korda and Lande. Elizabeth Gage will be around long after you're forgotten.

This was found in searching for Elizabeth Gage's book Pandoras Box. It was tagged as if the kindle version of that book. It is NOT. Honestly, not sure what this is other than waste of money.

I read this book in the 90's when it came out and loved it. So i ordered it and re-read it recently, still really good.