The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
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Laurel Lefkow
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Sarah Churchwell
‘Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight’ VOGUE
‘Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories’ NEW YORK TIMES
Intricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVER
There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim.
In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself.©2004 Sarah Churchwell (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic reviews
Inventive and entertaining ... Churchwell seems to have invented an altogether new form of biography
A splendid metabiography of one of the great icons of the twentieth century (BOOKS OF THE YEAR)
Refreshing … [Tears] away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories
Ferociously smart … A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight
Untangles the threads of Monroe’s life story, isolating the essential cornerstones of the Monroe myth
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