Blonde : a novel

ISBN: 0061774359
ISBN: 9780061774355
ISBN: 0062685864
ISBN: 9780062685865
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 738 pages) remote
Publisher: New York : Ecco Press, 2009.

Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- (Author).

Summary: "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"--The publisher