by Joyce Carol Oates · Stock · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234052901
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«Blonde» is a biographical novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Stock in paperback (982 pages, in French).
A fictional recreation of the life of Norma Jeane Baker, known as Marilyn Monroe, from a childhood marked by abandonment to her transformation into a film icon. Oates interweaves the actress's public persona with her inner world and reflects on fame, vulnerability, and the construction of female identity in twentieth-century America.
Subtitled 'Roman', it was published in 2000 in Stock's 'La Cosmopolite' collection.
For readers of biographical and literary fiction, interested in Marilyn Monroe and the work of Joyce Carol Oates.
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).
