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Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 1110 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 9132 Users | 883 Reviews

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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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« 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. »

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Title	:	Blonde
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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Ratings: 3.99 From 9132 Users | 883 Reviews

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In life, the woman was hell and in hell; on film, divine.-Billy WilderBeauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.This is a fictionalized account of Norma Jeane Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe. From a stuttering, neglected, little girl, to a drugged out, burned out starlet. It is not an easy read. This woman is relentlessly abused, exploited, raped and scorned for 700 pages. Nightmarish and hallucinogenic. What makes it captivating and readable, is the author's terrific writing skill and

This is an interesting fiction/real life blend about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. It appears to have pissed off many Monroe as well as Oates fans. Many who claim writer Oates was just bitter and jealous of Monroe's beauty, one reviewer going so far, after seeing Oates picture on the back cover, to say it was because "she'd been beaten with the ugly stick herself". Sheesh, talk about ugly people!I enjoyed the book even though it was pretty bleak and mostly depressing but how could it be

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

This is my first Joyce Carol Oats' book, and I was totally blown away by Oats' brilliance at creating scenes--one you can smell, feel and taste. For example, Gladys' smell in the Lakewood rest home; or Marilyn's smell after sex with a president. They all seemed pitch perfect. What also allowed such full descriptions and insight was the author's statement in the preface that none of the book is true. So, while the author didn't know if MM might have an oily filmy sweat problem as a result 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

Oates's novel brings Marilyn back to life for a mind-numbing 700+ pages, a Lazarus style resurrection so tedious that never have I been so ready for the main character in a novel to just pack it in and die already. Oates is a talented writer. Fantastic, even. And yet...this book is flawed. Deeply flawed. For one, it is entirely too long. It's filled with sentences, paragraphs, and even whole chapters that add nothing to the book. They seem to exist solely for the purpose of Oates showing off her

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