Dazzle by Judith Krantz

Author:Judith Krantz [Krantz, Judith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307803535
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2011-08-31T07:00:00+00:00

12

Jazz leaned back in her favorite chair at the ranch, a worn leather armchair that had somehow escaped being re-covered in seventy-five years, and surveyed the three people gathered around the great fireplace in the living room, where one of the first fires of the California winter blazed.

There was her father, looking fifteen years younger than he had at the Fiesta only a few months earlier. Maybe it was because his new tweed sport jacket of subtle shades of dark gray, in an inadvertent trick of contrast, caused his thick white hair, cut in an even shorter crewcut than usual, to look almost blond. Maybe it was because the winter rains had started heavily, with much more rain predicted, so that Mike could begin to relax about the eternal water problem; maybe it was the notoriously flattering firelight; maybe it was just that he was glad to see his darling daughter safely back from the Land of the Rising Sun; maybe—and there was always that possibility—maybe he was feeling the benefits of passing over certain daily responsibilities that he had hoped for when he made Casey Nelson Cow Boss. Whatever it was, Jazz decided, it was real, not just something in the flickering orange light, and she found herself puzzled, for her father looked not just younger but, in some subtle way, different.

Jazz hadn’t seen Mike Kilkullen in weeks. She had returned four days ago from a trip to Japan, where she had shot three separate portrait and life-style stories for Connoisseur, Vogue and Sports Illustrated. All three commissions had come in simultaneously, right after Traffic School, for interest in the new Japan was growing steadily as it established its economic presence in the United States.

Vogue had assigned her to photograph the ten most beautiful women in Japan in their own homes; Connoisseur had wanted portraits of the outstanding figures in Japanese literature and art, and Sports Illustrated had needed action pictures and informal portraits of the Japanese baseball, golf and swimming champions.

Jazz had taken along both of her assistants, and left Sis Levy to coordinate everything from Dazzle. It had been an exhausting, fascinating trip, and she’d spent every night since her return at home in Santa Monica, trying to arrive at the other side of a massive case of jet lag.

Sam Butler had telephoned her almost every day while she was gone, and he’d met her at the airport and whisked her home. For one glorious hour of fervid reunion, Jazz thought that Sam had invented the quick cure for jet lag, but the next day she’d been totally wiped out, and since then she had functioned in a semi-fog, doing nothing more than shoot two fashion spreads for Barney’s new Beverly Hills store, before she went back to her apartment, falling asleep before dinner, waking up at three in the morning and staying up, unable to fall asleep again until it was time to go back to Dazzle. She’d booked herself out yesterday, a Friday, and arrived

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