Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
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This fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe begins with her adolescent troubles in foster homes after her mother is institutionalized and ends--after she has been disappointed by a series of hopeless men--with her squalid death at 36. In an interview in Publishers Weekly, Joyce Carol Oates says she saw in Monroe "girls of my own background....I'm from a working-class background, and everything in my life seems to have been an accident." Her aim in the novel, she said, was "to show what [Marilyn Monroe] was like from the inside....the quintessential American heroine." Nominated for a 2000 National Book Award. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
Editions of Blonde
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Random House Mondadori |
Date 2000 |
Price None Available |
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 2000 |
Price $3.49 |
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Publisher Harperaudio |
Date 2000 |
Price $1.23 |
Used - Good |
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Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 2001 |
Price $1.20 |
Used, Very Good |
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Publisher Ecco Pr |
Date 2009 |
Price $10.12 |
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Media Reviews
"...BLONDE is fat, messy and fierce. It's part gothic, part kaleidoscopic novel of ideas, part lurid celebrity potboiler, and it is seldom less than engrossing....Long fascinated by the erotics of dominance and submission, Oates has often tracked this interest into the territory of the Grand Guignol....With Monroe..., Oates can't possibly go too far; her subject is of Cinemascope proportions, an undisputed titan in America's mythic imagination, so she can't be too vulgar or grandiose."
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