num_pages: 738
description: 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.
language: English
title: Blonde
titlecomplete: Blonde
characters: Marilyn Monroe
genres: Historical, Literature, American, Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary
ratings_count: 14859
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperCollins