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Marilyn, July 2012
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The Passion and the Paradox
Bloomsbury
July 2012
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Featuring: Marilyn Monroe
528 pages ISBN: 1608195317 EAN: 9781608195312 Kindle: B007N6JCHG Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: She was
a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent
party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and
a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous
biographer has recognized—much less attempted to
analyze—most of these aspects of her personality. Lois
Banner has. Since Marilyn’s death in August of 1962, the appetite for
information about her has been insatiable. Biographies of
Marilyn abound, and whether these books are sensational or
flawed, Marilyn’s fans have always come out in bestselling
numbers. This time, with Lois Banner’s Revelations, the fans
won’t be disappointed. This is no retread of recycled
material. As one of the founders of the field of women’s
history, Banner will reveal Marilyn Monroe in the way that
only a top-notch historian and biographer could. In researching Revelations, Banner’s credentials opened
doors. She gained access to Marilyn intimates who hadn’t
spoken to other biographers, and to private material unseen,
ignored, or misinterpreted by her predecessors. With new
details about Marilyn’s childhood foster homes, her sexual
abuse, her multiple marriages, her affairs, and her untimely
death at the age of thirty-six, Revelations is, at last, the
nuanced biography Marilyn fans have been waiting for.
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