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In Sugar and Spice, fate brings together two
remarkable women from different back-
grounds, one of them haunted by her past,
the other struggling to find her future--both
of them women of ambition and hunger, vul-
nerability and passion. Sweeping from the
vast sugar plantations of Argentina to the
competitive art and magazine worlds of New
York, from the slums of Rio deJaneiro to the
glamorous Paris fashion scene and the
nouvelle-greed climate of London in the late
1980s, it is a rivetingand dramatic story of
love and revenge.
Pandora Doyle, a young Englishwoman,
has fled London and the wreckage of her mar-
riage to work at Chic, a slick New York maga-
zine run by her oldest and dearest school
friend. Arianne de la Force, a beautiful, fabu-
lously wealthy Latin American widow, fought
her way out of the slums of Rio and a life of
penury in Paris to become the star model of
Balenciaga s last collection, a role that led to
her marriage to one of the world s richest
men, the largest landholder in Argentina.
Although she has learned to run her late hus-
band s business empire as effectively as he
once did, and though she moves with self-
assurance through the rarefied world she now
inhabits, she is constantly menaced by a
secret from her past: a long-ago murder in Rio
for which she may or may not be responsible.
The world s most expensive painting first
draws the two women together, at a glittering
auction at Christie s in New York. Intrigued
by Arianne, Pandora decides to write a profile
of her for Chic. As the two women s lives
become entwined, their initial suspicion and
mistrust of each other give way to friend-
ship, a bond based on honesty and respect.
Pandora begins to formulate a plan that
will transform her both personally and
professionally--a business proposal for a
chain of interior-design stores that becomes a
springboard into a different world and makes
her a success in her own right. But in the
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Sugar and Spice: A Novel 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024