Shattered Dreams (Dallas Television Series Novelization, Number 12)

by Laura Taylor

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557261016
• ISBN13: 9781557261014
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Soaps & Serials (tm), Pioneer
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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Sue Ellen's breakdown

"Shattered Dreams" is the 12th in a series of novelizations on the 1980s "Dallas" TV series. The books come from the Soaps & Serials imprint of Pioneer Communications Network, which also did similar novelizations of TV's "Guiding Light," "Days of Our Lives" and "Dallas" spinoff "Knots Landing," among others. There are at least 14 books in the "Dallas" series. This novel focuses on the "John Ewing III," Part 1 and 2 episodes at the end of the second season. Lucy is heavily addicted to quaaludes. Sue Ellen's drunkenness draws a warning from her doctor. And J.R. is schmoozing Sen. Newbury to disband the Office of Land Management (since he couldn't get Sam Culver to do it in the last book). Sue Ellen passes out in her car and the family snaps into panic mode over her, with J.R. locking down all the alcohol in the house and instructing the servants to closely monitor her. Sue Ellen falls down the stairs and, though the baby is OK, J.R. uses this latest incident to put her into a sanitarium. She starts to dry out, but then one of the orderlies sells her booze. She tells Bobby, in a moment of weakness, about her affair with Cliff Barnes. Then she runs from the sanitarium and gets into a car crash.