Cinderella and the carpetbagger

the long version

"The 1960s and '70s were decades like no others -- radical, experimental, libertine. Grace Robbins chronicles the rollicking good times, peppering her memoir with anecdotes of her encounters with luminaries ... The couple was at the center of a globe-trotting jet set, with mansions in Beverly Hills, villas and yachts on the French Riviera and Acapulco. Their life rivaled -- and often supassed -- that of the characters in his books. Champagne flowed, cocaine was plentiful, and sex in the pre-AIDs era was embraced with abandon"--Jacket flap.