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This Blonde Doesn't Have Any Fun at All
When I was in graduate school, working on my MSW, I was assigned to work with a client who had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. One day, she tried to tell me what her world was like.
?I feel as if every day I wake up in a new place,? she said. ?What I felt yesterday, I...
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Blonde
Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates is a fictional look at Marilyn Monroe?s life. It is not a biography, it is a fiction novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The book begins with Norma Jean Mortenson?s childhood, her life with her mentally unstable mother, and life in an orphanage, to her life in... Read full review »
Blonde- The Movie
I have not read Joyce Carol Oates' novel based on Marilyn Monroe's life story. It may be a good book. I am sure she is a good writer. My argument is against "Blonde" the CBS miniseries based upon this novel, of which I was only able to tolerate the first part. The miniseries aired May 13 and 16 and... Read full review »
"Blonde" is AMBITIOUS
This isa very good portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Her story has been told and retold so many times. This book was chosen as a finalist for the National Book Award. It tells of the life of Marilyn Monroe.
The book tells about Norma Jean Baker as a child growing up with a schizophrenic mother. It...
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A Fictional Bio of Marilyn Monroe
Norma Jean Baker was not Marilyn Monroe--she just played her in the movies. But the fact that she could never make anyone else understand that, least of all her husbands and lovers, aided in pushing a woman of already fragile mental health further to the edge.
This fictionalized biography...
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Blonde
In this ambitious book, 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 startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist-- intensely conflicted and driven--who has 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.
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Blonde
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.
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