Blonde: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Blonde: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Blonde: A Novel Tuesday, July 28 2009.

• Added a contributor: Joyce Carol Oates: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Blonde: A Novel Thursday, July 16 2009.

• "This movie I've been seeing all my life, yet never to its completion."