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| Blonde |
Nominated ISBN: 0060196076 |
Find out more about the author on the following websites: Bookreoprter
review of Blonde with link to an excerpt from the novel
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| Joyce Carol Oates | ||
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Bibliotheque Municipale de Tours, Tours, France Biblioteka
Publiczna M. St. Warszawy, Warsaw, Poland |
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ABOUT THE
BOOK
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| She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature. She inspired the adoration of millions, and her life has beguiled generations of fans and fellow artists. Blonde reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker, better known by her studio name, Marilyn Monroe, the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and tells the story in Norma Jeane's own voice: startling, rich, and shattering. This most intimate portrait of Norma Jeane reveals a fragile, idiosyncratically gifted young woman who makes and remakes her identity, ever managing to survive against crushing odds to become the definition of stardom. Bit by bit, she tells her own epic story of how an emblematic American artist, perpetually conflicted and intensely driven, lost her way. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Joyce
Carol Oates
is the author of over thirty books, including Broke Heart Blues,
We Were the Mulvaneys, Black Water
and Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart.
A recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence
in Short Fiction, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
she is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
at Princeton University, U.S.
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