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One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde —the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. In her most ambitious work to date, 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 twentieth-century American star."A self-described "distilled" life in the form of fiction, Blonde tells only the backbone of Monroe’s rags-to-rags story, discarding with much of the historical Marilyn in an apparent attempt to see her anew... Oates clearly had to choose a radical approach if she was to have any hope of a fresh understanding of the girl behind the woman behind the necktie. And once the reader s

Who reads Blonde : a Novel?

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

The Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060196073

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.97 / 5 (595 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13