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The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
- Author
- Sarah Churchwell
- Narrator
- Laurel Lefkow
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 November 2024
- Run Time
- 15 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘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.
Critics Review
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Inventive and entertaining ... Churchwell seems to have invented an altogether new form of biography
LITERARY REVIEW
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A splendid metabiography of one of the great icons of the twentieth century
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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Refreshing … [Tears] away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories
NEW YORK TIMES
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Ferociously smart … A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight
VOGUE
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Untangles the threads of Monroe’s life story, isolating the essential cornerstones of the Monroe myth
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Churchwell
- Narrator
- Laurel Lefkow
- Duration
- 15 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 November 2024
- ISBN
- 9781526685346
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: arts and entertainment, Films, cinema, Popular culture, Social and cultural anthropology, Biography and non-fiction prose
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Sarah Churchwell, read by Laurel Lefkow‘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 TIMESIntricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVERThere 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.
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