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reviewed the novel on her blog as part of her series "Adventures in Trash". In her review she listed the novel's many faults, including logical inconsistencies – such as when the heroine convinces her blind husband that day is night and night is day in order to conceal her job as a nude model (from
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However, despite confessing that "it’s utter, utter nonsense", Parkin "adore it", writing: "however ridiculous this book is, it’s also charming – in the way writing often is when it’s written in a breathless rush and without any thought for what anyone will make of it". She also praises the
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contemporary detail ("There are lots of things I love about this fantastically odd novel, but one of my favourite things has got to be the quirky little glimpses it gives into the time it comes from"), such as the focus on knees, skin, and shaved armpits as signifiers of female beauty.
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According to Landau, in his foreword to the novel, Harlow had expressed interest in writing a novel as early as 1933–1934 and completed a manuscript before her death in 1937. During her life, Harlow's stepfather Marino Bello shopped the unpublished manuscript around to a few studios.
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on it, using a clause in Harlow's contract that her services as an artist can't be used without MGM's permission. After her death, Landau writes, her mother sold the film rights to
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