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A look at marilyns inner life flamboyant and confident, marilyn monroe oozed sex appeal. Joyce carol oates born june 16, 1938 is an american writer. 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. Joyce carol oates books are highly acclaimed, and for good reason. Read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge book cover audio excerpt. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading blonde. Joyce carol oates is a recipient of the national medal of humanities, the national book critics circle ivan sandrof lifetime achievement award, the national book award, and the penmalamud award for excellence in short fiction, and has been several times nominated for the pulitzer prize. She is also the recipient of the 2005 prix femina for the falls. In this striking, enormously affecting novel, joyce carol oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked american families. The book has been awarded with bram stoker award for best novel 1995. Its a bloated, humorless fictional speculation on the life and career of marilyn monroe that mixes together canned us and film history. Kelly kelleher is an idealistic, twentysixyearold good girl when she meets the senator at a fourth of july party.
Joyce carol oates has taken a shocking story that has become an american myth and, from it, has created a novel of electrifying power and illumination. Already a wellestablished literary force by the age of thirtyfour, oates had written three books that had been named finalists for the national book award in 1968, 1969, and 1972, and her novel. Blonde is a bestselling 2000 historical novel by joyce carol oates that chronicles the inner life of marilyn monroe, though oates. Dramatic, provocative and unsettlingly suggestive, blonde is as much a bombshell as its protagonist, the legendary marilyn monroe. The blonde goddess icon with the silversweet smile and figure that drove the world wild is brought back to you courtesy of that remarkably prolific author of the american novel. See all books authored by joyce carol oates, including we were the mulvaneys, and the scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction. At the beginning of oatess 36th novel, rebecca schwart is mistaken by a seemingly. Joyce carol oates became a published author with the short story collection by the north gate. The first edition of the novel was published in 1995, and was written by joyce carol oates.