Blonde

Marilyn Monroe was pure fire, raw sexuality, turbulent romances, but she was also a fragile woman, scared and full of insecurities that she looked for in others -in the Former-Athlete, in the Playwright or in the President- that love that she herself She refused. A gifted artist loaded with conflicts, fears and unleashed passions; a girl who did not stop fleeing forward and who came to mock her own death to become a legend. After exhaustive documentation, Joyce Carol Oates redraws the inner life of Norma Jeane Baker -the little fatherless, the woman dependent on tranquilizers and stimulants, the actress and ill-fated lover- and her "Magic Friend of the Mirror", the blonde idolized in fashion. that the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe.