Blonde [electronic resource]
Joyce Carol Oates2004
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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. The story of Norma Jeane Baker, better known by her
studio name, Marilyn Monroe, has been dissected for more than three decades, but
never has it been captured in a narrative as breathtaking and transforming as
Blonde.
In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most
distinguished writers, re-imagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of
Norma Jeane Baker, the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and tells the
story in Norma Jeane's own voice: startling, rich, and shattering.
Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the
distinct consciousness of the woman and the unsparing reflection of the myth,
writing as she has never written before, ecstatic, completely absorbed,
inhabited as if by the spirit of her extraordinary subject. R...
Main title:
Blonde [electronic resource] / Joyce Carol Oates
Author:
Joyce Carol Oates, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins, 2004
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file) (230 MB, 08:23:51 H)
Performers:
Narrator: Jayne Atkinson
Audience:
Adult
System details:
Platform: findawayMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780060794002
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
439285
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eAudiobook |