A Stranger in the Mirror

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STRANGER IN THE MIRROR by Sidney Sheldon
With The Other Side of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon became known to millions as a master storyteller. Now, in his new novel, A Stranger in the Mirror, he once again employs his extraordinary skills to tell this tale of an all too brief, passionate love between a great star and a beautiful starlet.
This is the story of Toby Temple, super star and super bastard, adored by his vast TV and movie public, fawned on and feared by the most powerful men and women in show business. The world's funniest and wealthiest comedian, Toby Temple is the loneliest of men.
Jill Castle, a sensual beauty carrying within her a terrible secret, comes to the nightmare world of Hollywood to pursue dreams of stardom. Born to be desired, Jill is taught only to hate.
And then she meets Toby.
Toby and Jill are fated to love, their affair destined to end in tragedy. The denouement will chill and stun you.
Jacket design by Paul Bacon
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STRANGER IN THE MIRROR by Sidney Sheldon
With The Other Side of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon became known to millions as a master storyteller. Now, in his new novel, A Stranger in the Mirror, he once again employs his extraordinary skills to tell this tale of an all too brief, passionate love between a great star and a beautiful starlet.
This is the story of Toby Temple, super star and super bastard, adored by his vast TV and movie public, fawned on and feared by the most powerful men and women in show business. The world's funniest and wealthiest comedian, Toby Temple is the loneliest of men.
Jill Castle, a sensual beauty carrying within her a terrible secret, comes to the nightmare world of Hollywood to pursue dreams of stardom. Born to be desired, Jill is taught only to hate.
And then she meets Toby.
Toby and Jill are fated to love, their affair destined to end in tragedy. The denouement will chill and stun you.
Jacket design by Paul Bacon
Sidney Sheldon has had a most remarkable career. A native of Chicago, Mr. Sheldon attended Northwestern University on a scholarship but left during the Depression to work as a factory hand, checkroom attendant, radio announcer, and songwriter before heading for Hollywood. His career there was interrupted for service in the Army Air Corps. After the war he began to write for the theater.
At the age of twenty-five, Mr. Sheldon had three hit musicals running simultaneously on Broadway. He returned to Hollywood, where he wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxe,. He received Screen Writers Guild Awards for the Best Musical of the Year for Easter Parade and Annie Get Your Gun. And he was awarded a Tony for the Broadway musical Redhead.
In addition, Mr. Sheldon produced and directed The Buster Keaton Story and has worked with many of the top stars in Hollywood. He also created two long-running TV series, "The Patty Duke Show" and "I Dream of Jeannie." In all, he has written over two hundred TV scripts, twenty-five major motion pictures, six Broadway plays, and three novels.
His first work of fiction. The Naked Face, was acclaimed as "the best first mystery novel of the year" by The New York Times. His second novel, The Other Side oj Midnight, was a worldwide best seller and has been read by over twelve million people in the United States alone. With A Stranger in the Mirror, Sidney Sheldon has done it again.

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