| Author: | Oates, Joyce Carol |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate (2000) |
| Pages: | 960 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Synopsis: |
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist--intensely conflicted and driven--who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary woman's heartbreaking reality, "Blonde" is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star. |
| Notes: |
Eco Press, NY, 2000 (2) HarperCollins(Fourth Estate), London, 2001 sc HarperCollins, 2009 (3) Franklin Library, 2000 (4) |
