{"product_id":"blonde-a-novel-isbn-9780061774355","title":"Blonde: A Novel","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"\u003eOne of \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003eAmerica\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of \u003cst1:country-region w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eAmerica\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:country-region\u003e’s most enduring icons in \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of Marilyn Monroe—aka Norma Jeane Baker—comes provocatively alive in this powerful tale of \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eHollywood\u003c\/st1:place\u003e myth and heartbreaking reality. Marilyn Monroe lives—reborn to tell her untold history; her story of a star created to shine brightest in the \u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eHollywood\u003c\/st1:place\u003e firmament before her fall to earth. \u003cem\u003eBlonde \u003c\/em\u003eis a dazzling fictional portrait of the intricate inner life of the idolized and desired movie star as only the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates could paint it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“In Blonde, Oates has found a character and a narrative mode that exploit all her strengths as a writer . . . a narrative intensity often found in her stories but never sustained so successfully in a long novel and an exuberant mastery of language that suggests a writer at the peak of her power.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Joyce Carol Oates’ scary and rhapsodic novel about the life of Marilyn Monroe is saturated with the mysteried of eye and camera. . . . It’s eccentric, exhausting—and remarkable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Grimly compelling. . . . a portrait of Hollywood as terrifyingly hallucinatory as Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating imagining of the hellish battles that Monroe fought with herself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887910645989,"sku":"NP9780061774355","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061774355.jpg?v=1730227715","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/blonde-a-novel-isbn-9780061774355","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}