The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of
Marilyn Monroe Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas Adrien Brody Bobby Cannavale and
Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works 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 20th-century American star.
