by Joyce Carol Oates
This is an interesting fiction/real life blend about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. It appears to have pissed off many Monroe as well as Oates fans. Many who claim writer Oates was just bitter and jealous of Monroe's beauty, one reviewer going so far, after seeing Oates picture on the back co...
Don't forget to read this! Sera says it's balls.
Blonde is the Fictionalized Biography of Marilyn Monroe. I chose to read it over a more conventional style biography because I thought it would thought would be a more personal account and show more of her character and personality.The book chronicles her life as a young child growing up with a ment...
This is the first novel by Joyce Carol Oates I've ready, and I have to say that her prose and her style are chosen carefully to reinforce the themes of the novel. On the other hand, this fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe was difficult to get through but fascinating to read, like watching tra...
Blonde is the fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe, from birth to her 'suicide'. I've never followed Marilyn Monroe or known anything more than sketchy details about her life. Joyce Carol Oates tries to make some of the details intentionally vague - referring to famous people by just a single...
This is an interesting fiction/real life blend about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. It appears to have pissed off many Monroe as well as Oates fans. Many who claim writer Oates was just bitter and jealous of Monroe's beauty, one reviewer going so far, after seeing Oates picture on the back co...
I found this completely engrossing from the get-go. A sad sad story with the piquancy of gossip. Does a satisfying full circle.
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