Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates · 2000
Buy on AmazonThe life of Marilyn Monroe as seen by JCO. The story begins with Marilyn's birth and ends with her death. JCO creates a story that could very well be Marilyn's story, haunting.
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"if I'm sick for a few days, I will read Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates. It never fails to mesmerize. I've read it at least 10 times."
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"I recently reread "Blonde" and "On Boxing," by Joyce Carol Oates, and her writing still knocks me out of my chair every time."
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"But I can say that the novel that exhausted me the most, wrung my emotions the most and left me determined never again to write a thousand-page novel with a sympathetic protagonist who must die on the last page is “Blonde,” imagined as a tragic-epic of the life of Norma Jeane Baker/“Marilyn Monroe.”"
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"Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates. It's fiction, but I think it captures Marilyn Monroe with extraordinary insight and empathy."
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