Joyce Carol Oates
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 1110 pages Rating: 3.99 | 9132 Users | 883 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blonde |
| Author | : | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1110 pages |
| Published | : | April 30th 2002 by Le Livre de Poche (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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« Alors, en début de soirée, ce 3 août 1962, vint la Mort, index sur la sonnette du 12305 Fifth Helena Drive. La Mort qui essuyait la sueur de son front avec sa casquette de base-ball. La Mort qui mastiquait vite, impatiente, un chewing-gum. Pas un bruit à l'intérieur. La Mort ne peut pas le laisser sur le pas de la porte, ce foutu paquet, il lui faut une signature. Elle n'entend que les vibrations ronronnantes de l'air conditionné. Ou bien... est-ce qu'elle entend une radio là ? La maison est de type espagnol, c'est une « hacienda » de plain-pied ; murs en fausses briques, toiture en tuiles orange luisantes, fenêtres aux stores tirés. On la croirait presque recouverte d'une poussière grise. Compacte et miniature comme une maison de poupée, rien de grandiose pour Brentwood. La Mort sonna à deux reprises, appuya fort la seconde. Cette fois, on ouvrit la porte.De la main de la Mort, j'acceptais ce cadeau. Je savais ce que c'était, je crois. Et de la part de qui c'était. En voyant le nom et l'adresse, j'ai ri et j'ai signé sans hésiter. »Present Books Conducive To Blonde
| Original Title: | Blonde |
| ISBN: | 2253152854 (ISBN13: 9782253152859) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Characters: | Marilyn Monroe |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2001), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2000) |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 9132 Users | 883 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Blonde
It's been many years since I read this one but it really struck me as getting to the heart of Marilyn Monroe better than nonfiction. Or rather Norma Jean, as Marilyn is not the star of this novel. The novel reads like a sweeping biography. Of course, her life and death as well as her goddess-like fame is covered, but it's Norma Jean the reader gets to know. She's the only person worth knowing because Marilyn is a mirage. A mirage that still holds our interest almost sixty years after her death.Blonde is the Fictionalized Biography of Marilyn Monroe. I chose to read it over a more conventional style biography because I thought it would thought would be a more personal account and show more of her character and personality. The book chronicles her life as a young child growing up with a mentally unstable mother and eventual placement in an orphanage and foster homes.We also see her transformation from the natural beauty Norma Jean Baker to the Sex Symbol Marilyn Monroe. Beneath the
For all of Blonde's claims as a novelized, feminist retelling of Marilyn Monroe's life, I have seldom come across a book with more disturbing, dehumanizing references to the female body and mind. I am aware that these are intended to further emphasize Marilyn's loathed and loved standing in the American psyche as the virgin/whore goddess/garbage dichotomy, but the painful overuse of the adjectives "cow", "cunt", and "mammalian" to describe Marilyn, as well as endlessly repetitive descriptions of
After quite loving Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. , Oates' upcoming new novel and my first touching point with her writing, I was drawn to Blonde, an epic and fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe's life. A finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, Oates herself has said that she expects this to be the novel for which she will ultimately be remembered.At over 700 pages, Blonde is incredibly ambitious in both length and scope as it follows Monroe's tumultuous life, from
This book was very difficult to read. Not because of the writing, which is phenomenal, but because we already know the sad ending. Joyce Carol Oates takes us on a literary journey from babyhood through to the end with a flawless, relentless depiction of the mind within the body that embarked on this particular journey. It is beyond sad to bear witness to the reactions and defenses of a mind molded by fear, uncertainty, unpredictability and unreliability that resulted in a young woman who became
I have never watched a Marilyn Monroe movie and, before reading "Blonde," Joyce Carol Oates fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe, I knew pretty much nothing about her life, other than she had been married to famous people and sang "Happy Birthday" to JFK. I chose to read "Blonde" to find out more about Marilyn Monroe, to learn some of the truth behind the icon, so that she would become more real to me and less abstract. Ironically, I think this is the opposite of what Oates had in mind for
This is the story of how the shy, stammering Norma Jean Baker was transformed into the sensual, sexual Marilyn Monroe. Joyce Carol Oates has emphasized that it is a fictional novel, based on true events. She added an e to Norma Jean to clarify that it is fiction based on Norma Jean or a description of how Norma Jean might have thought and felt during her life.Norma Jeane had a tragic childhood. Her mother was an addict and schizofrenic, and mistreated Norma, even tried to kill her. Normas father
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