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Average rating4.1
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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—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.
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Engrossing and so well plotted. Loved reading a “fictional” story about someone we all know.
So uh, ends with a reveal of Charlie Chaplin being Norma's father? Uh, cool! Very weird book. Very good book. It's probably the most interesting book I've read yet. But, I do feel like the book loses what it's going for somewhat the last 200 pages or so.