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Had a hard time slogging through the first chunk of this tome. Although a central character, Mistral proved a bit of a barbaric boor and an essentially one dimensional character. The other early main character, Maggie, should have been interesting, but I couldn't connect with her or her scandalous pairing with Mistral--this plot line, though racy & raunchy enough, was a bit of a snooze. Still, I toiled on, hoping something would break. I was to be rewarded with the introduction of the dreamy and psychologically complex Teddy (Maggie's daughter) and her dramatic, if not tragic storyline. The real payoff for pushing through this almost 600 page novel came with the eventual arrival of Fauve (Maggie's granddaughter and Teddy's daughter). Fauve's plotline, with the Mistral connection, her career managing a modeling agency, her relationship with the now older Maggie, and her romantic relationship with Eric, kept the pace at a brisk clip. Enjoyed the setting: New York City and France. The most interesting character in the book, the smooth and calculating Kate Browning Mistral, was a minor but clever addition to the lineup. The ending did not disappoint.


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Mistral Daughter A Novel Judith Krantz 9780553259179 Books Reviews

It seems as though it's been edited to be more in keeping with the current times instead of the 80's when I first read it.
I've loved this book ever since I first read it as a teenager -- the near-tattered paperback was my mother's copy from her younger years. It got me hooked to Judith Krantz' writing, which is fabulously lush! Read this; you'll adore it. (We seem to have lost that old copy so I bought the edition. If you ever experience 'dry' reading spells, just crack a Judith Krantz and you'll be back to devouring books in no time.)
I loved this book. I had seen the tv series many years ago; while it was excellent, the book really held my interest. The parts of the book that detail the life of Teddy, before she was a famous model are very real; you can understand and feel what she felt. The Maggy/Kate jealousy and rivalry is also very well described. Kate's determination to 'hang on' to Mistral is also well internalized; it is easy to relate her to people you may know that have held on when clearly they had lost. The heartbreak of Mistral, and the attempt to ease that heartbreak through a relationship with Fauve was endearing. While I loved all the Kate sequences, the ones near the end with Nadine were outstanding. Maggy, Teddy, Fauve, Kate and Nadine; one can feel the resentments, hurt, despair, grief and love that flow from these characters.
I've read this book several times. Most often on airplanes. It's wonderful, fun ,romantic, well written for what it is, a romance novel with a perfect cast of women far more lovely than mere mortals, that makes it all the more fun. I also love that I share the last name of the main protagonist! Judith Krantz writes with authority about the south of France and the world of art and fashion. It's only slightly dated and will always remain an old favorite never a hesitation if I need a quick beach read.
The Great Lady herself stated that this was her own favorite among her novels, but this was back when she had only published three. Mistral himself is one of her most complex characters—don’t start thinking Leopold Bloom or Kate Croy—and one of the few instances in her work of a major character in need of large-scale redemption. Yet, given the constraints of the genre (she is constantly pigeon-holed as a writer of Romance novels, which, I suppose, at one level, she is), she writes Mistral in a way compelling enough to elevate this novel above much second-rate Victorian fiction, of which some may consider her simply the 20th-century equivalent, since, if she is not literary by 20th-century standards, she can certainly hold her own—all the sex included—against more traditional narrative constructs that aimed merely to entertain in the 19th century. Having said that, this novel is among Krantz’s most missish—with very little sexually explicit material and none of what another very able reviewer dubbed erotic vignettes featuring a minor female character and her particular—uh—tastes. This is also one of her most European novels much of the novel is set in Paris and Provence; the New York episodes are pretty light-weight, so, if you’re looking for a solidly American Krantz, this ain’t it. The other wonderful aspect of this novel is the way in which Krantz has integrated her own Jewish heritage into the narrative; merely glancing at the anti-semetic atrocities of WWII (she devotes more attention to them in TILL WE MEET AGAIN), yet sifting them for a major plot point. Very skillfully done, I must say. All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable and well-written romp (if you’re not snobbish about Romance fiction, or this kind of splashy bodice-ripper, you will discover some beautifully wrought prose along the way), well-worth it for a rainy afternoon and heaps of guilty pleasure.
Had a hard time slogging through the first chunk of this tome. Although a central character, Mistral proved a bit of a barbaric boor and an essentially one dimensional character. The other early main character, Maggie, should have been interesting, but I couldn't connect with her or her scandalous pairing with Mistral--this plot line, though racy & raunchy enough, was a bit of a snooze. Still, I toiled on, hoping something would break. I was to be rewarded with the introduction of the dreamy and psychologically complex Teddy (Maggie's daughter) and her dramatic, if not tragic storyline. The real payoff for pushing through this almost 600 page novel came with the eventual arrival of Fauve (Maggie's granddaughter and Teddy's daughter). Fauve's plotline, with the Mistral connection, her career managing a modeling agency, her relationship with the now older Maggie, and her romantic relationship with Eric, kept the pace at a brisk clip. Enjoyed the setting New York City and France. The most interesting character in the book, the smooth and calculating Kate Browning Mistral, was a minor but clever addition to the lineup. The ending did not disappoint.