· In BLONDE, this remarkable, epic new novel by Joyce Carol Oates, we come to understand the larger-than-life personality of Marilyn Monroe vis a vis the elusive, nearly invisible person of Norma Jeane www.doorway.ru by: 2. · by Joyce Carol Oates ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, In the perverse manner all too typical of her singular career, Oates follows up one of her best novels'last year’s plaintive Broke Heart Blues'with one of the worst she (or any other contemporary “serious” author, for that matter) has ever committed to www.doorway.ru: Kirkus Reviews. My introduction to the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates is Blonde, a radically distilled accounting of the life and death of Norma Jeane Baker, who exploded onto screens (and magazine spreads) in as "Marilyn Monroe," became a global sex symbol and almost as quickly, exited the world in a drug overdose. Published in , this is fiction, with characters of the author's invention mingling with real people 4/5.
Joyce Carol Oates takes the boldest path to comprehending "the riddle, the curse of Monroe" by proceeding directly and frankly to fiction. Her novel "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. Joyce Carol Oates sympathetically explores the inner life of the woman destined to become Hollywood's most compelling legend. `Blonde' is a brilliant and deeply moving portrait of a culture hypnotised by its own myths and the shattering reality of the personal effects it had on the woman who became Marilyn Monroe. Read Less. Blonde Joyce Carol Oates Fourth Estate £, pp Buy it at BOL. There are many reasons to love Marilyn Monroe: the breathy sweetness of her, the talent, the luminous beauty, the sad, short life.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. ― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde. 6 likes. Like “As if whoever it was held that camera was her closest friend. Or maybe it was the camera that was her closest friend.”. My introduction to the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates is Blonde, a radically distilled accounting of the life and death of Norma Jeane Baker, who exploded onto screens (and magazine spreads) in as "Marilyn Monroe," became a global sex symbol and almost as quickly, exited the world in a drug overdose. Published in , this is fiction, with.
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