Blonde - 20th Anniversary Edition Author:Joyce Carol Oates In one of her most ambitious works, 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 startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist ... more »-- intensely conflicted and driven -- who had 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 20th-century American star. « less