Helpful Score: 1
This is thought to be J.S. first novel but not the first she published. It was writtn in the 50's. It's very interesting to compare her writing style then to Valley of the dolls.
It was a space travel story and a love story
It was a space travel story and a love story
Helpful Score: 1
So you think you know Jacqueline Susann?
Well you don't. Not until you read Yargo. This is an amazingly good sci fi/love story. Janet, the heroine is probably the most complicated female Ms. Susann ever created and Yargo himself is perfect, literally, he's worshiped as a god by a whole planet. The book has humor, wit and hooks the reader from the very first paragraph. If you don't touch another Jacqueline Susann book, give this one a chance.
March 25, 2004
By Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) -from amazon
It was published years after Susann's death. It seems she had given it to a publisher friend of hers and he "lost" it in his files. He rediscovered it years later and it was published once and seems to be forgotten. I could never understand why. I read Yargo as a teenager and absolutely loved it. --starvinArtist
Well you don't. Not until you read Yargo. This is an amazingly good sci fi/love story. Janet, the heroine is probably the most complicated female Ms. Susann ever created and Yargo himself is perfect, literally, he's worshiped as a god by a whole planet. The book has humor, wit and hooks the reader from the very first paragraph. If you don't touch another Jacqueline Susann book, give this one a chance.
March 25, 2004
By Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) -from amazon
It was published years after Susann's death. It seems she had given it to a publisher friend of hers and he "lost" it in his files. He rediscovered it years later and it was published once and seems to be forgotten. I could never understand why. I read Yargo as a teenager and absolutely loved it. --starvinArtist
Ms. Susann has created quite a plot for our protagonist, Janet, who is drearily preparing to marry the man who unromantically calls her, "Honey Girl" when she is unexpectedly swept away into space, having been mistaken for a famous scientist. She goes through such trials as learning that she will be sent to live on Mars, getting her envoy on the way to Mars kidnapped by Venusians, nearly becomes the "Mother" of the new Venusian race, and finds love in the leader of Yargo, The Yargo himself. Along the way, she learns much about herself, and the human race, from the woman who is appointed to watch over her during her stay on Yargo and on the trip to Mars and beyond.
Book is soiled, with notation of a former owner's initials and read dates on the inside cover.
