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Marilyn Monroe
by Leaming, Barbara
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517702606
- ISBN 13
- 9780517702604
- Seller
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Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, 1998. first printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 464p, illustrations, 24cm tall, octavo. Ownership signature on endpaper.
Synopsis
Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the world's of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, including revealing letters by Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Darryl Zanuck, Marilyn's psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, and many others, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves. At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy after witnessing Marilyn, powerless to overcome her demons, move inexorably to her own final, terrible betrayal of herself. Marilyn Monroe is a book that will make you think--and will break your heart.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Sandhill Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00004185
- Title
- Marilyn Monroe
- Author
- Leaming, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0517702606
- ISBN 13
- 9780517702604
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- marilyn monroe
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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