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Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0374158355
EAN: 9780374158354
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
Marilyn Monroe’s image is so universal that we can’t help
but believe that we know all there is to know of her. Every
word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy.
Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her
notoriety—and the way the camera fell helplessly in love
with her. But what of the other Marilyn? Beyond the headlines—and the
too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a
woman far more curious, searching, and hopeful than the one
the world got to know. Even as Hollywood studios tried to
mold and suppress her, Marilyn never lost her insight, her
passion, and her humor. To confront the mounting
difficulties of her life, she wrote. Now, for the first time, we can meet this private Marilyn
and get to know her in a way we never have before. Fragments
is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to
herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn’s own handwriting,
never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text—jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or
written on hotel letterhead—reveal a woman who loved deeply
and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe
unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful,
funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive
lightness that made her performances so memorable emerge on
the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last
appearances so heartbreaking. Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will
redefine one of the greatest stars of the twentieth century
and which, nearly fifty years after her death, will
definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity.
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