''Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick'' was the third novel from English novelist Jackie Collins, published in 1971 by W. H. Allen, it was retitled ''The Hollywood Zoo'' in 1975 and then as ''Sinners'' in 1984.Britannica.com
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(the previous two had been set in

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) and also the first one that centred on the lives and loves of film stars. The character of Charlie Brick was said to be based on actor comedian Peter Sellers, a close friend of Collins' at the time.

Plot

Sunday Simmons is an aspiring actress. The daughter of a South American father and French mother, she left

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to attend a drama academy in

. Two days after her departure, her parents were killed in a car crash. Charlie Brick was forty and famous. He was one of the best comedic actors in the world, but his relationships with women had never failed to disappoint him, including his cold, unloving wife Lorna. Herbert Lincoln Jefferson was working as a chauffeur for one of the

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film companies. While his grotesquely fat wife, Marge, watched TV and ate all day, he was indulging in perverse sexual fantasies. The lives of the three characters intertwine when they meet in Hollywood.

Reception

''Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick'' was Collins' third bestseller and, like her previous two novels ''

The World Is Full Of Married Men ''The World Is Full of Married Men'' is the debut novel of British author Jackie Collins, first published in 1968 by W. H. Allen & Co. Plot summary Set in London in the swinging sixties, middle-aged advertising executive David Cooper cheats on ...

'' and '' The Stud'', her new novel sparked controversy for its sexually explicit nature.

References

Novels by Jackie Collins 1971 British novels Novels set in Los Angeles Novels about actors W. H. Allen & Co. books {{1970s-novel-stub