by Joyce Carol Oates · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401328350
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«Blonde» is the historical fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (942 pages, in Spanish).
A fictional recreation of the life of Norma Jeane Baker, the woman who became Marilyn Monroe, caught between public legend and private person. With prose of great psychological intensity, Joyce Carol Oates imagines the rise to Hollywood stardom and the fragility of one who became an icon of the twentieth century.
Translation by María Eugenia Cocchini; edition published in 2000. Finalist for the National Book Award and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
For book clubs and for readers of literary and historical fiction interested in the figure of Marilyn Monroe and in classic Hollywood.
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).
