by Joyce Carol Oates · Ecco · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780062968456
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«Blonde» is the biographical novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Ecco in paperback (768 pages, in English).
The novel reconstructs the inner life of Norma Jeane Baker, the woman the world knew as Marilyn Monroe, from her origins to her consecration as an icon of twentieth-century Hollywood. The work combines fiction and biography to portray the contradictions, fears and ambition of an artist trapped between her identity and the legend that turned her into a myth.
20th anniversary edition, finalist for the National Book Award and adapted for film by Netflix.
Suitable for book clubs and for those seeking a literary approach to the myth of Marilyn Monroe.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
